Letting off a little steam... by tennesseecowgirl

Photography • Transportation • posted on Jan 07, 2009

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1907 Horse-Drawn Steam Fire Engine.

For Jeff, I hope you are feeling better. I felt like jazzing this one up a little bit. This was taken inside a fire station in Knoxville Tennessee; someone mentioned it would be great to see it with the horses pulling it, well it is used twice a year for local parades. One for Christmas and one for the Dogwoods festival in the spring, since I didn’t make it to the Christmas parade to get a shot (too cold) I will try to get one during the next parade I would love to see that too.

Horse-Drawn Steam Fire Engine

Comments (45)

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awjay

2:44PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

nice presentation

PD154

2:45PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Wonderful capture Lynell, Jeff will love it :)

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Richardphotos

2:46PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

excellent post work and your presentation is superb

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tennesseecowgirl

2:49PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Thanks all I am heading out into the rain.. lol to get some pictures of the over flowing streams in our area, been raining here non-stop why not get out and enjoy it... my daughter just got home and informed me the the schools are closed tomorrow because of flooding... YIKES hope it stops soon.

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Kaartijer

2:53PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Cool shot, I'm glad you came up with a bigger version of it!

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moochagoo

3:07PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Terrific postwork !

thevolunteer

3:09PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Love the postwork. I have been on one similar. Even got to ring the firebell. Nice shot. Aloha

MrsLubner

3:14PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

an artistic and outstanding creation. Very skillfully done.

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magichild2

3:35PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Oh this is a great photo shot...LOve these old historic vehicles.

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magnus073

3:45PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Funny title for this great photo Lynell, nice work

skipper62

5:07PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Wonderful presentation. And yes, please do go to the Dogwood Festival and get it with the horses. I can see and hear it now -- racing down the street, smoke bleaching form the stack, bells ringing. Well, that's the way they show it in the movies.. I'm not quite that old.

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THROBBE

5:12PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Great composition and post work Lynell!

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Faemike55

5:13PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Great picture and wonderful postwork

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goodoleboy

6:07PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

OMG, all that metalwork! Love the ghostlike apparition effects of the fire engine you've concocted here, Lynell. Sorry about your weather conditions.

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drifterlee

6:14PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

This looks like a drawing. Wonderful art!!

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jocko500

6:21PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

wonderful postwork

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schonee

6:29PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Great Tittle and picture well done!

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timtripp

7:07PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

marvelous!

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Miska7

7:10PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Very nice picture and post work! Well done.

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SSoffia

8:23PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

GREAT CAPTURE :)

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moonrancher

9:25PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

Nice effect to give the feel of hurrying off to a fire or a parade. Great work!

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Minda

10:02PM | Wed, 07 January 2009

great color and picture,wonderful work.

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praep

1:13AM | Thu, 08 January 2009

Another great shot of this lovely oldtimer.

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bmac62

2:38AM | Thu, 08 January 2009

This fire engine is 101! We all should look so good at that age:-) I like your jazzed up presentation very much! Bill

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JeffG7BRJ

3:14AM | Thu, 08 January 2009

It looks like new Lynell, these restoration people do a damn fine job, I like that big brass bell under the foot rest. I wonder how they work it, I have seen some like it before and as far as I recall the turn a handle to get it to ring. It looks like this one would be too close to the horses butt, to be able to turn it. Very intriguing, I can't wait for the Dogwood Festival, I hope you manage to make it. Superb work and thank you for sharing. Bravo!!!!!

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anahata.c

5:53AM | Thu, 08 January 2009

another of your vibrant shots of old & marvelous structures, this one a symphony in reds, blacks & gold. And I'm glad you caught the red truck next to it, because it gives us more vivid red, and because we can see what those old carriages turned into. (Did you know that "teamster" was the name for the person who drove a 'team of horses'? You probably knew that, but just in case...Point is, trucks came out of these old horse-drawn things; and it's amazing to see their 'intermediate' stages, where you had horses but also engines. Even if the engines were used to power water, they represent the in-between stage...) Thanks for giving us all these pieces of our culture, Lynell. You give us a real journey...

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