Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Probably our most unusual and challenging use of steam as an effect was for artist Jeffrey Koons, commissioned by LACMA to create a landmark sculpture, to suspend a 70’ replica of a 1943 Baldwin 2900 steam locomotive over Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, with wheels turning and smoke billowing from beneath and from the smoke stack – suspended 100 ft off ground. We invented a method of housing a boiler (suspended) to have steam shoot outward horizontally from the smokestack while suspended from a crane. Unfortunately, the project never got off the ground, quite literally.
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Probably our most unusual and challenging use of steam as an effect was for artist Jeffrey Koons, commissioned by LACMA to create a landmark sculpture, to suspend a 70’ replica of a 1943 Baldwin 2900 steam locomotive over Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, with wheels turning and smoke billowing from beneath and from the smoke stack – suspended 100 ft off ground. We invented a method of housing a boiler (suspended) to have steam shoot outward horizontally from the smokestack while suspended from a crane. Unfortunately, the project never got off the ground, quite literally.
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Twitter: twitter.com/Technifex
Facebook: facebook.com/technifex
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