Crazy Idea

Hap_Hazzard

I'm finally getting around to shopping for a new calendar for my office (Why don't people give their customers calendars anymore?), and I got a crazy idea.



Am I the only guy here who'd buy a calendar with pictures of steam boilers, piping masterpieces and other exceptional examples of steam systems? If the pictures some of you guys posted here were of high enough resolution I'd do it myself, but I really like to see it done right, especially if it could have little extras like a paragraph from the pro who did the work.



I'd think this kind of thing could be done every year, with a different theme every year. One year it might be near-boiler piping, or boiler trim. Another year it might be classic radiators or main venting. One-pipe, two-pipe, vapor systems, restorations--once in a while it might even be fun to have a year of knuckleheads.



Thoughts?

BobC

Sounds good to me.

Sounds like an idea who's time has come.



Bob

SWEI

Steam Porn

Some friends from Black Rock City http://kineticsteamworks.org/

nicholas bonham-carter

A great idea

I made .this suggestion several years ago, for a calendar, featuring "grizzled old steam .pros, and their .boilers"

How wonderful it would be if the right photographs were included!--NBC

Gordo

But

Q: Do you have to be "grizzled" and "old" to be a steam pro? ;-)



 A: No, but it helps !

nicholas bonham-carter

calendar views

no you're just fine for the calendar.

of course, it's the old pictures which would make the month.--nbc

Hap_Hazzard

Nice

I'll have to go by there next time I'm out there.

Hap_Hazzard

That'd make a damn good cover shot

But it'd take more than a paragraph to explain what all that stuff is--to me anyway. You guys sure get into some interesting stuff, on top of the mundane replace/repipe boiler work. I'm impressed with the amount of photo-documentation you guys do, considering how busy you are, but I sometimes get the feeling it just scratches the surface.

JStar

Calendar

Makes you wish that cameras were more field-friendly in the past. Would be awesome to see the same jobsite over a hundred years, and probably how closely the techs look alike!

Gordo

Thanks!

I'd post more stuff, but I've had trouble with posting recent photos here on this site.

Don't know what the issue is.  My old filed photos still post ok.



The photo is of three  pressure reducing valves on a district steam system.

SWEI

same jobsite

or any jobsite, really.



How many photos do we have of Dead Men Working?

Gordo

Here's a Map

of Baltimore's Distinct Steam System from the 1950s



What do you think- the month of February perhaps? 



Edit - see what I mean! Why can't this post?

Gordo

Not Many

Because the film speeds weren't fast enough back in the day,  they would just show a blur!

Hap_Hazzard

Picture Posting

I'm not sure what's happening, but it could have more to do with the name of the file or possibly the directory path it's in. Take a look at the file you were trying to upload and see if there's anything unusual about its name or the name of the directory it's in or any directory containing it. Are there spaces in the name or any non-word characters, like quotes, apostrophes, parentheses, ampersands, etc. If nothing stands out, try using a different browser. Ordinarily none of this should matter, but it keeps happening to people, and it's piqued my curiosity, and if it's keeping you from posting more pictures, that's not good, so I want to see if we can figure this out.