Stationary Steam

Paul Young, of Baraboo, owns this Vilter engine, built about 1915 in Milwaukee and formerly used to power a lineshaft at the Dresen Bros. Lumber Co., of Sauk City, WI. The engine has virtually no wear and is like new because the dam and hydroelectric plant at Prarie Du Sac were built shortly after this engine was installed and an electric motor soon took the work of this engine.

This Hamilton Corliss engine was built in Hamilton, Ohio about 1885 and was used to power a lineshaft and drive an electrical generator at the Reebs Malt Co., of Port Washington, WI. The engine was donated to the club in 1974 by the late James Hill, Jr., of Baraboo. The engine features a ten foot two piece flywheel, a 12 inch bore, 36 inch stroke and puts out about 85 horsepower at 85 rpm using steam at 100 psi.

Paul Young, of Baraboo, owns and restored this early stationary steam engine. Believed to have been built around 1860 by an unknown manufacturer, this engine has a nine foot curved spoke flywheel, a 12 inch diameter cylinder and a 30 inch stroke. Paul got the engine near Antigo, WI, about 30 years ago and did extensive restoration work to it.

This Troy – Enberg engine was originally used at the Badger Army Ammunition plant to mix the chemicals required to make nitroglycerin! It was located on the second floor of a small building where it was belted to a lineshaft driving an agitator. Paul Young, who owns this engine, hopes to find a more pleasant purpose for it, running his ice cream freezers!

Shown here are a couple of nice gadgets from engine rooms of yore, a steam powered fan and a gage board containing two pressure gages and a clock. Owned by Paul Young, of Baraboo, WI.

 
This Reynolds Corliss, owned by Joe Prindle and Paul Young, was built June 24^th 1889 at the Reliance Works of Edward P. Allis & Co, in Milwaukee, WI. It was then shipped to Merrill, WI where it ran a sawmill until 1930, when it was relocated to rural Tomahawk, WI. It last ran in 1968 and laid idle until its removal to Baraboo in the fall of 2002. The engine features a 12 inch bore, 36 inch stroke and ten foot one piece flywheel weighing 8300 pounds. It puts out 85 horsepower at 85 rpm using steam at 100 psi.

      
Joe Prindle (me!) doing some last minute adjusting to the Reynolds Corliss on Saturday morning of the show. The engine had run about 8 hours since its initial start up by this point and there were a few little things to tweak on.