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In 1930, the C&O ordered the first of forty 2-10-4 "Texas"-types from Lima, which they classified as the T-1 class, and they shared identical design features with the Erie’s 2-8-4s. [ 1 ] The T-1s were equipped with a trailing truck booster that exerted 15,275 pounds-force (67.95 kN) of tractive effort.
A modern recovery boiler consists of heat transfer surfaces made of steel tube; furnace-1, superheaters-2, boiler generating bank-3 and economizers-4. The steam drum-5 design is of single-drum type. The air and black liquor are introduced through primary and secondary air ports-6, liquor guns-7 and tertiary air ports-8.
It sported an outside diameter of 109 in (2.8 m), 2 in (51 mm) wider than the Union Pacific Big Boy, carried 23 ft (7.0 m) tubes and flues, one foot longer than Big Boy, and was designed with a maximum operating pressure of 265 psi (1.83 MPa) in mind. In practice, the first safety valve was set at 260 psi (1.8 MPa).
Number 01 516, at the time already sporting its computer number 01 1516-2, achieved regrettable notoriety, when on 27 November 1977 its boiler exploded at Bitterfeld station due to a lack of water, killing not only the crew of 2, but another 7 bystanders, and injuring more than 50 people. This was the last boiler explosion in Germany.
FBC smoke tube boiler. Fluidized bed combustion (FBC) is a combustion technology used to burn solid fuels.. In its most basic form, fuel particles are suspended in a hot, bubbling fluidity bed of ash and other particulate materials (sand, limestone etc.) through which jets of air are blown to provide the oxygen required for combustion or gasification.
On 15 March 1991 at 2100 hours, the USS W.S. Sims suffered a boiler explosion. Following a BECCE (Basic Engineering Casualty Control Exercises), the boiler was secured as part of training. When the backup diesel generator failed to function properly, the decision was made to try to execute a "residual steam light off" of the boiler.
The Union Pacific 9000 class was the only class of steam locomotives with a 4-12-2 wheel arrangement ever to be built, also the 9000 class was the largest rigid frame locomotive ever built. Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives , the locomotives had four leading wheels , twelve coupled driving wheels , and two ...
Southern Pacific 4294 is a class "AC-12" 4-8-8-2 cab-forward–type steam locomotive that was owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1944 and was used hauling SP's trains over the Sierra Nevada, often working on Donner Pass in California.