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Geared steam locomotives
Compared to their traditional reciprocating rod-driven counterparts, geared steam locomotives can be seen as “oddballs” to ...
The improvement in the application of counter-pressure steam ... locomotive engine, it must be b0rne in mind that it is not water in the state in which it would flow from a fountain; it is at a ...
The first (and ultimately the overall first articulated steam locomotives ... twice for more power, while consuming less fuel and water. The high-pressure cylinder on the rear engine set would ...
Copy of the World's First ... run at a steam pressure of 45 pounds per square inch - most stationary engines at that time could only achieve 14 psi. With no preconceptions of what a locomotive ...
The boilers are united by a tube to equalize the steam pressure ... of the entire locomotive. The motive power is placed in the central transverse vertical plane of the engine.