KVR Summerland - Locomotive Traditional Cache
KVR Summerland - Locomotive
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This cache was placed along the KVR Summerland with a few area geocachers at the request of "thefamousthree". I was honoured to be included, I hope this new series will be popular, and bring many people out this way to show them the beauty of the area. Bring a few friends and take a walk on the KVR.
The Kettle Valley Steam Railway is a historic 10 mile stretch of track which is pulled by Engine 3716. Visitors to the station and train riders can take the opportunity to admire the steam train which chugs along the mountainside along its historic stretch of railway. Prior to locomotives, the motive force for railroads had been generated by various lower-technology methods such as human power, horse power, gravity or stationary engines that drove cable systems. The first successful locomotives were built by Cornish inventor Richard Trevithick. In 1804 his unnamed steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren ironworks, near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. Although the locomotive hauled a train of 10 long tons (11.2 short tons; 10.2 t) of iron and 70 passengers in five wagons over nine miles (14 km), it was too heavy for the cast iron rails used at the time. The locomotive only ran three trips before it was abandoned. Trevithick built a series of locomotives after the Penydarren experiment, including one which ran at a colliery in Tyneside in northern England, where it was seen by the young George Stephenson. The first commercially successful steam locomotive was Matthew Murray's rack locomotive, Salamanca, built for the narrow gauge Middleton Railway in 1812. This was followed in 1813 by the Puffing Billy built by Christopher Blackett and William Hedley for the Wylam Colliery Railway, the first successful locomotive running by adhesion only. Puffing Billy is now on display in the Science Museum in London, the oldest locomotive in existence.
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