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After seeing the size of the building, I now understand why the
recent donations are being used to fix leaking windows and the roof.
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Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum posted
This is the official facebook group page of the Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum. We are a small group of volunteers dedicated to the restoration of the 1908 vertical compound Corliss pumping engine built by Platt Ironworks that resides in the original engine house of the Woburn Waterworks. Our goal is to educate our visitors on the original workings of a steam driven fresh water supply system, use of scientific instruments, the history of the Town of Woburn, and historic steam engineering practice. We wish to establish a museum that can be visited by the public and where the engine can be observed running on live steam at select times throughout the year. Currently, we are trying to raise money to fix several roof leaks on the building, and to restore the ageing weather-compromised windows. The engine now runs on live steam after only three months of work and 4000 dollars of expenditure, and this we believe is a powerful demonstrator of why a museum must be established here. If you have any questions or would like to donate, please feel free to message us. |
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It's hard to believe that this photograph was taken in 2018. |
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Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum posted
Long ago, our original boiler house was scrapped to make way for the Woburn Auxiliary fire department. Originally equipped with two Horizontal Return Tube boilers and a Knowles feed pump. Here is how it most likely looked. |
Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum posted three photos with the comment: "Photographs taken by Philip Beard."
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This video starts with closeups of the Corliss valve action. I've noticed before that that design makes a rather unique clicking sound.
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3:16 video @ 2:24
October 27th [2017] Startup and Run |
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Sep 1, 2022: 1:19 video @ 0:30
For all of our new followers, Our 1908 vertical compound Corliss steam engine stands three and a half stories tall from the foundation plate in the basement to the eaves of the engine house. Restored to operation in 2018, we are set to run the engine again for all to see again this year when repairs to the building are complete, and pending sourcing a portable boiler. |
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Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum posted
A shot of our scientific balanced used to test the specific gravity of water samples against a sample of known pure water, to measure the amount of contaminants or dissolved solids. Also used to measure water treatment chemical amounts, treatment amounts for the steam boilers, and many other things.
[If the water is not clean, then they have to later clean the boiler tubes.] |
They do have an event space.
Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum
posted 11 photos with the comment: "Making ready for this weekend [5-6,7-2023].
"Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum posted 2 photos with the comment: Ladies and Gents, this'll be the last weekend for some time where we'll have Louise in steam before she's tucked away for a long quiet nap.
Don't worry though, the interest that has been generated has been incredible and we are beyond thrilled with how well things have gone and how supportive you've all been; there WILL be another steam up, if not in the Autumn of 2023 then certainly spring of Next year. We are also making progress on our goal to get a permanent boiler, so steam demonstrations can be come a fairly regular occurrence.
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1 of 16 photos posted by Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum
Another tremendous weekend at the pumping station. Thank you all so much for coming and supporting this project. The importance of steam power and our water infrastructure is an undertold story in our world today, yet it was critical in how it shaped the world we live in today. It is our goal to keep share this extremely interesting history with you in this unique way. We are in talks for another steam up for this October, please watch this space for updates. Photos courtesy of Elijah Jackson Clay Hess Rich Jenkins & Philip Beard. |
Bonuses
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Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum posted
A similarly sized Cousin, built by Allis. |
Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum
posted six photos with the comment: "To honor our good fortune with regards to our engine's survival, here are photos of other engines in Massachusetts stations around the commonwealth that used to form its gigantic and cohesive water infrastructure system and which have been completely destroyed. These are photographs of Stoneham waterworks on spot pond and its Leavitt and Holly Gaskill engines. Spot pond station was our closest neighbor and the building and chimney still stands, empty."
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Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum
posted seven photos with the comment: "Part 2: To honor our good fortune with regards to our engine's survival, here are photos of other engines in Massachusetts stations around the commonwealth that used to form its gigantic and cohesive water infrastructure system and which have been completely destroyed. Here are photographs of the Laidlaw-Dunn Gordon high speed cross compound Corliss engine, Blake & Knowles compound duplex pump, Allis turbine and centrifugal pump set, and Cambridge Ironworks HRT boilers at the Arlington Waterworks."
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Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum
posted five photos with the comment: "Part 3: To honor our good fortune with regards to our engine's survival, here are photos of other engines in Massachusetts stations around the commonwealth which have been completely destroyed. Here are the four Holly Gaskill inverted vertical triples in the Low Service building at Chestnut Hill. These engines all survived in just short of working order until 2006 when they were obliterated by scrappers to fill their building with high rent condominiums."
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Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum
posted three photos with the comment: "Part 4: To honor our good fortune with regards to our engine's survival, here are photos of other engines in Massachusetts stations around the commonwealth which have been completely destroyed. Here is the Blake & Knowles four cylinder compound duplex pump of the Clinton Mass. Sewerage station, which treated and pulled out wastewater, and the locomotive type boilers that fed it steam."
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Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum
posted four images with the comment: "Part 5: To honor our good fortune with regards to our engine's survival, here are photos of other engines in Massachusetts stations around the commonwealth which have been completely destroyed. This is the tremendous Leavitt four-cylinder opposed compound double beam of the waterworks in Lawrence Massachusetts."
Ryan Hayward: If your steam guy has yet to visit the waterworks museum at Chestnut Hill, it would be neat to see those giants running again!
Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum: Ryan Hayward it's in the works 😉
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Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum
posted two images with the comment: "Part 8: To honor our good fortune with regard to our engine's survival, here are photos of other engines in Massachusetts stations around the commonwealth which have been completely destroyed.
In this beautiful colorized photograph we see one of the low service engines at the Brookline pumping station low service building, in West Roxbury Mass."
Richard Jenkins: Cute little triple. Who built it?
Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum: Richard Jenkins this should be an E.P. Allis machine.
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Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum posted
Part 6: To honor our good fortune with regards to our engine's survival, here are photos of other engines in Massachusetts stations around the commonwealth which have been completely destroyed. Here is the high speed Laidlaw-Dunn Gordon horizontal cross compound Corliss engine that used to live in the waterworks at Hyde Park, Boston. |
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