PADDLE WHEELER Steamboat Thomas Powell’s maiden voyage! Hudson River Live steam Walking Beam model

Hudson River Walking Beam live steam model “Thomas Powell“. Part eleven The Maiden Voyage! Going back in time, gauge one!... ...and the journey was a long one!...One that took over 5 years and over five thousand hours of work to complete! “Thomas Powell“ is clearly the most challenging steamboat model I’ve built up to now, and the one I spent the most time working on, but I think it was well worth it! Watching this model gently, steadily “walking along“ is quite a sight! Just imagine what it must have been to watch the real paddle steamer majestically passing by from the rivershore, as many locals did back then! Unfortunately, the only two surviving “walking beam“ engine steamboats still in existence today are both static ones! (Eureka, San Francisco and Ticonderoga, Vermont) The “Walking Beam“ name came from Indians living along the rivers; they coined a name for the paddle whe