Locomotive Breath is a photograph by Peter Chilelli which was uploaded on October 1st, 2013.
Locomotive Breath
An enhanced and re-sized version of the public domain image Locomotive Roundhouse suitable for fine art prints.... more
Title
Locomotive Breath
Artist
Peter Chilelli
Medium
Photograph
Description
An enhanced and re-sized version of the public domain image "Locomotive Roundhouse" suitable for fine art prints.
A roundhouse is a building used by railroads for servicing locomotives. Roundhouses are large, circular or semicircular structures that were traditionally located surrounding or adjacent to turntables. The defining feature of the traditional roundhouse was the turntable, which facilitates access when the building is used for repair facilities or for storage of steam locomotives.
Early steam locomotives normally travelled forwards only; although reverse operations capabilities were soon built into locomotive mechanisms, the controls were normally optimized for forward travel, and the locomotives often could not operate as well in reverse. Some passenger cars, such as observation cars, were also designed as late as the 1960s for operations in a particular direction. A turntable allowed a locomotive or other rolling stock to be turned around for the return journey.
Uploaded
October 1st, 2013
