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Steam_train_at_station.webm (WebM audio/video file, VP8/Vorbis, length 57 s, 768 × 576 pixels, 2.37 Mbps overall, file size: 15.96 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
The steam locomotive No. 3822 [8] (fired by Mark Needham) and an open platform were rented by Queen from the Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire and repainted for the video. In particular, the group named the train "The Miracle Express", and this name was reflected in large red letters on the sides of the locomotive.
North American steam locomotive whistles have different sounds from one another. They come in many forms, from tiny little single-note shriekers to larger plain whistles with deeper tones (a deep, plain train whistle is the "hooter" of the Norfolk & Western, used on their A- and Y-class Mallet locomotives). Even more well known were the multi ...
Several distinct sounds are created by various parts of the train, such as engines, traction motors, brakes, and the wheels rolling on the rails. Roughness and irregularities on the wheel and rail surfaces are a source of noise and vibration. Rail joints and squats on the rail cause a familiar "clickety-clack" sound as train wheels roll over them.
Ogle Winston Link [1] (December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001), known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk and Western in the United States in the late 1950s.
Exhaust steam is directed upwards out of the locomotive through the chimney, by way of a nozzle called a blastpipe, creating the familiar "chuffing" sound of the steam locomotive. The blastpipe is placed at a strategic point inside the smokebox that is at the same time traversed by the combustion gases drawn through the boiler and grate by the ...
Sierra No. 3, often called the "Movie Star locomotive", is a 19th-century 4-6-0 "Ten Wheeler" type steam locomotive owned by the State of California and preserved and operated by the Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown, California.
The other is to enable more fuel-efficient operation when the locomotive is running in a steady state: the throttle is set wide open and the power output is controlled by moving the reversing lever closer to its mid-point ("reducing the cut-off") to limit the amount of steam admitted to the cylinders. a train brake lever, which controls the ...
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