Photo Gallery
 Wide angle view of the shop showing some of the steam engine, steam vehicle, and steam generator collection. |
 Charlie Briar’s Doble Simplex steam car. This is neither a Doble nor the Doble Simplex. The engine is a Besler V-2 double acting compound that was made for electrical generation on the rail cars for the Long Island Railroad. The boiler is mostly a Besler smoke generator coil. The only part that is from the original Doble-Simplex is the generator-starting motor and water pump unit. This car was put together by Charlie Briar. |
 Wide angle shop view. Steam cars are from left to right: Williams Victress 105 c.i.d. in line 4 with boiler in the trunk, Charlie Briar’s car, Keen Steamliner with a Doble “F” boiler in front and a 100 c.i.d. uniflow V-4 in the trunk, 1969 Chevelle SE-124 that was a Besler conversion done for General Motors. |
|---|---|---|
 Keen Steamliner, made in Madison , Wisconsin in 1963 using a Doble designed boiler with a furnace gun burning 9 ˝ gallons of kerosene an hour. There is a large condenser in front. |
 Jim Jones’ “Thing” that has a propane fired Besler smoke coil generator monotube boiler and a 6 ˝ hp Stanley engine. |
 Homemade steam vehicle with two oscillating engines using the rear axle as the crankshaft and with a Stanley type boiler, propane fired. |
 Williams Victress bodied fiberglass kit car mounted on a 1940’s Ford frame. |
||