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Cruquius largest steam engine1

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HDR F8 and 3 exposures made of the building the Cruquius holding the largest steam engine ever build !

The former steam pumping station "De Cruquius", from 1849, is an industrial monument of world proportions. From 1849 till 1852 the Cruquius, together with its sister steam pumping stations "Leeghwater" and "Lijnden", drained the lake Haarlemmermeer and kept it drained thereafter till 1933.

Today in what used to be a lake Schiphol Airport and Hoofddorp (where I live) are situated.

The former steam pumping station was built in neo-Gothic style: the building is an ode to Progress, it is richly ornamented and looks like a medieval castle: a stronghold, but in this case against the water.

It houses the largest steam engine ever built, with a steam cylinder of no less than 144 inches in diameter! This colossal machine drives eight beams that weigh 10 tons each and stretch out from the building like tentacles, in turn driving eight giant water pumps which together raised 64.000 liters of water at every stroke!

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Passacaglia28's avatar
Good shot as well. I love your gallery too.