WMSTR - Rollag 2004 - Stationary Steam Engine

The Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion outside of Rollag, MN is one of largest of it's kind. The grounds are over 1 square mile in size.
This show is every year for four days around Labor Day Weekend. This video shows one of the stationary steam engines that is actually used to generate power. Also shown is the boiler that powers it.

[@prairiemom3]

Yet there are soulless men whose hand and brain tear down what time will never give again.
Anderson Scruggs.

[@brassandbricks7701]

Beautiful! I love how calming the sound is. So much power (torque) yet it's so serene~

[@mrgoob76]

and the best part is its like a Stirling engine all you need is a heat source of some time, and that ranges from garbage, wood chips, biomatter, or my personal favorite using solar power to melt salt and use salt as a thermal battery

[@eddie100]

Steam Engines will be back.

[@vishal26011983]

TRUE , my friend its the cheapest way to generate and a self dependent form of generating electricity, i hv 2 of them at my ware house sir

[@Captain_Char]

I like how the boiler is the same as an actual locomotive's boiler

[@Spiro20004]

interesting but terribly inefficient even by steam standards

[@williamt.sherman9841]

in many cases that is because they WERE formally steam locomotives boilers. In many examples Steam locomotives that were out classed or no longer needed would have their boilers repurposed is a source of mechanical power.

[@mwan200]

Is this steam engine located in Minnesota ?

[@JonBvideo]

Yes, Rollag, Mn.