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I made myself a very nice Christmas present and went to explore a lesser known steam winding engine: a model set up at Ewald Colliery shaft 1, Herten, by Eisenhütte Prinz Rudolph, Dülmen, in 1926. Out of service for decades and probably without maintenance since the late 1970ies, it still is in mint condition. You see the Koepe sheave driving the winding rope via static friction, the crank shaft and its bearing, the bevel gear drives for the camshafts and parts of the belt brake system. Also visiting workshops and other secondary facilities, the return air shaft, the three story entrance to shaft 2 and a complete skip extraction system at shaft 7, this has clearly been the most interesting and pleasant tour for quite a while.