Living Machines: Inside a Paddle Steamer

Walking beams, side levers, flywheels and calliopes — engine-room tours, whistles and the surviving boats run by people who keep 200-year-old machinery under steam.

Playlist by @paddle_steamer_history

11 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. How to operate a 116 year old steam ship — Sandro Here
2. How the Pilot House to Engine Room Telegraph System Works onboard the steamer Belle of Louisville — Belle of Louisville Riverboats
3. Steamboat Natchez Blows Whistle on the Mississippi River in New Orleans — PacificCuda
4. Natchez Steamboat Paddle-Wheel, Engine Room, Steam Whistle and Docking — TheSkydivingNerd
5. Steamboat Natchez: Engine Room — Sealy57
6. Calliope on the steamboat Natchez - New Orleans — Nigel Wears
7. Paddle Steamer Waverley Engines on departure from Lochranza 14th August 2016 — Caledonian Spirit
8. The FULL Story of Eppleton Hall’s Transatlantic Voyage — Newcastle to San Francisco (1969-1970) — The Unlucky Tug
9. Simple Walking-Beam Steam Engine — Filip Bonte
10. Waverley Engine Room — Cameron Smith
11. Model Sternwheeler Steam Engine test run — DeltaAPmech