This steam engine is a tandem compound design, with a high and low pressure cylinder. The high pressure cylinder is the small one, closest to the camera. You can see the insulated steam line leading from there to the steam chest of the larger, low pressure cylinder. This engine was built, and still operates, in Ballarat Australia at the Sovereign Hill historical site.
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If you ever get to Boston, be sure to visit the "Waterworks Museum". It's a great collection of steam driven water pumps.
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