Gallery
David and Goliath battle
David and Goliath: US runabout valiantly makes a stand against a Prussian juggernaut.
Juggernaut sword fight
Duel on the juggernaut
1896 Prussian steam runabout
Cyclops mercenary rig
Gunnery Sergeant Bill Tunney, in the storming of the Prussian juggernaut, finds himself on the monster’s claw-grip as the makeshift mercenary rig Cyclops comes steaming around to pick him off.
The Kansas attacks
The USSF Jefferson, 1896 ajax class rig
The Ulysses
The US samson class battlerig Ulysses has seen better days. Top of its line, the 1907 rig was first to feature electric lighting. Note alternating stacks, another first.
The Koloss aus Eisen
A proud General Voss poses atop the pride of the Prussian fleet, the Koloss aus Eisen, the world’s first Juggernaut class steam rig, after a small crew has walked it out of the world’s largest hangar before a crowd of thousands.
Prussian Recon Runabout, 1898
Privately owned pleasure rig of inventor Lucy Tillencrest
Two Samson Class Rigs at the Ready, 1898
