Introducing Stella, our local steam engine run by the West Otago Steam and Vintage Club. While loading the washing machine I heard lots of loud clanking and then Nigel called me. Looking out the door, there was Stella clanking and steaming her way up the street. I grabbed my camera and ran out the front door to take this shot. The building in the photo is the covered display area for the museum. Tapanui, West Otago, New Zealand. Photo taken 22 Jan 2022.
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Text and photo by Liz; Exploring Colour (2022)
Exploring Colour 
Stella has kept well, though I suspect she had some cosmetic surgery. 🙂
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Hahaha! Yes, I guess so. Lots of ongoing support I would think! 😀
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Fun to see, and I love the name!
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Isn’t it a great name? I love it too. From memory, when you look at the engine from the front ‘Stella’ is neatly painted around the ‘face’ of the machine.
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This is wonderful. I have a photo of some of my forebears with a steam-powered sodbuster on the Canadian prairie. Those machines are marvelous — beautiful, too.
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‘sodbuster’ .. that’s a great name!
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That’s a really impressive machine – clearly well-loved because it’s in such immaculate condition.
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Stella’s taken to steam shows, she’s loved!
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First there is a sheep outside your door, and now a steam engine! You live in such an interesting place.
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Now you put it like that.. yes I do! 😀
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