Paddle Steamers on Lake Lucerne

I've just bought a new toy and have been digitizing some old analogue video footage. I'm quite pleased with the video quality, but for some reason there is only sound on the right audio channel on this upload.

Here we get a brief look at Steamboat Uri and Unterwadlen working Lake Lucerne, Switzerland back in 2002.

The Sulzer engine fitted to Uri was built in 1901, the information plaque fitted in the mid deck reads...

'This is the oldest operating vessel with a diagonal, compound steam engine, with disc valve gear. Operating at a higher pressure than the oscillating-cylinder engines then used on the lake steamers, this type of engine was more powerful and efficient as well as smaller. The compound engine, built by Sulzer Brothers of Winterthur, uses super-heated steam from the boiler in two stages - high and low pressure - before exhausting it into a condenser. The engine produces 650 horsepower, turning two paddle wheels.'

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Science & Technology

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• uri
• unterwalden
• steam
• boat
• ship
• paddle
• steamer
• lake
• luzern
• switzerland
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• Lucerne
• engine
• power
• vintage
• old
• heritage
• preserved
• motor
• hot fog
• kettle

[MrSiner09]

wow now thats a beast of an engine!!!!!

[Bevoin1970]

Nice looking, moving parts on the engine Nigel, good quality film too. Its a great way of boosting old film footage, I thought your results looked quite good myself.