Tuesday Torque: Bessemer Powerhouse Engine

 This smooth-running two stroke was on display at the 2017 June Southern Indiana Antique Machinery show at Evansville, Indiana. I saw engines like this one pumping oil in Eastern Kentucky way back in the 1970's, and I doubt there are many that are still working. At that time, electricity was being run to the leases, and rods were being unhooked on the engines, which were then belted to electric motors. The powerhouses were still running the rod-lines to pump oil, but the Chuff-Chuff-Chuff of the old gas engines was disappearing.