I was back in Detroit last week on business and had a few hours before the plane departed, so I spent some time over at the Henry Ford - Greenfield Village. In the village, they have a roundhouse, where they restore old rolling stock that they have acquired over the years. Here is Old #7 built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. It has taken them 10 years to tear it apart and rebuild/restore it. Yesterday morning they were firing it up only for the second time to take it out in the evening for another test run. The first time was earlier in the week.

I only had a bit less than 3 hours, and I was not able to get to everything that I had on my list. Also, on the images that I did take, I now see that I did not get everything framed the way that I really wanted, especially after stitching and seeing how the crop would lay down. Well there is always next time.....

I pulled each stack into to Oleno's Photoengine, and then used the raw recovery, and saved the result as a 16 bit TIFF. Then the 4 individual TIFFs were stitched in ICE resulting in a single 16 bit TIFF, that I then scaled down for posting here.

All were taken at 12mm, f8.

I am not quite done with these. The first is 7800 x 5600 and 44MB large as a 16 bit TIFF. 20 original images, in bracketed stacks of 5 frames (+/- 2ev), using a tripod, and the second is similar.

[ramseybuckeye]

Well done, what difficult lighting that must have been to work with open doors and all of those windows.

[Bob Harris]

wonderful job on the photography work, would love to see and hear this in person, thanks for the views.

[wombat2go]

Here it is working on the morning of June 16. -Taken with the MX and the -M 40~80 zoom and Fuji 400

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[leptim]

Wonderful shots....I have been there a time or 2 and it is a great place to visit.

[tootall]

A very interesting looking engine

[pickles]

Lovely. How often do they steam up the Loco & give it a run?
Cheers, Pickles

[wombat2go]

1897 Baldwin #7 (Detroit&Lima) | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum

"it won't run unless they are running 2 locomotives and there is no exact schedule for what 2 will run and when" They want to have it out to showcase their restoration work, but it is limited to 3 passenger cars where the others can pull 4, due to how much bigger/longer it is than the 4-4-0 "Edison" or 0-6-4T "Torch Lake" With any more than 3 cars it can not fit all the cars on the platform at the main station (Firestone) without the loco being in the walking path setting off the Railroad Crossing bells/lights.

[nystateofmind27]

Beautiful; something so awesome about these mighty mechanical machines.