Rapeseed burning steam locomotive is just as crazy as wheat burning ditto and wheat is cheaper and less pestiside/fertilizer demanding. The smell...
The idea is to convert iron oxide ore to steel directly with hydrogen from windmills etc. This also makes blast furnaces superfluous. I think...
A Duhess needs aproximately 20% more steam to do the job of a Duke.It also put out four exhausts per rev and a Duke 6
The german 05002 had a long and usefull life and single chimney with top at 4550 mm or close to 15 feet.05002 blastpipe by Hermod posted Aug 5,...
Single nozzle ans spar arrester
160 P started life as 150 built 1910 141P s were improved 141Cs from PLM and 241P was rewamped PLM 241 Cs. Big, ugly brutes that made not enough...
The moving parts of a LP side must be almost the same mass as HP. Piston is bigger but handles lower pressure and temperature
Chapelon was not constructing locomotives but was ordered to improve or modify failures of others. He may never have had the opportunity to...
There were 998 two cylinder high speed BR standards methinks. Europes fastest regular steam train ever was pulled by SNCB class 12 locomotives.
It is my sincere opinion that a two cylinder compound 4-6-0 somewhat like a B16/4 could have pulled uttely superfluous upper class citizens non...
It is an old -engineer pass-time to see if more can be had for less. Danish constructed diesel Lyntog from 1935 could have done 400miles in 6...
Being unbalanced 141R locomotives were not alowed to run faster than 100kmh. Their minimum steam consumption was 14.1lbs/ihph at 1975 ihp...
Was it ever proposed to electryfi Shap banking operation?
6000 ihp is power of 3 LNER V2 working flat out. The Chapelon compound 152 goods engine was planned to pull fitted freigth at max 105 km/h. 700...
A very good reason for making articulates as compounds,was that flexible steam pipe to articulated front truck only had to handle receiver steam....
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