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Diagramatic section through an earlier steam locomotive boiler and firebox to the right. Note the boiler is not fitted with a superheater. In the standard steam locomotive fire-tube boiler, the firebox is surrounded by water space on five sides. The bottom of the firebox is open to atmospheric pressure, but covered by fire grates (solid fuel ...
The hatched circles show the outline of the barrel to which the firebox was attached. A Round-topped firebox cross section shown for comparison. Note the angling of the stays. Pacific-type flat-topped inner firebox. The Belpaire firebox is a type of firebox used on steam locomotives. It was invented by Alfred Belpaire of Belgium in 1864. Today ...
Pages in category "Steam locomotive fireboxes" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. ... Firebox (steam engine) H. Haycock boiler; P. Pistol ...
The square-topped Belpaire firebox allows steam to be conveniently collected at its top corners and therefore locomotives with Belpaire fireboxes often dispensed with a dome, for example express engines such as the GWR Castle Class (the large brass boiler fitting on a Castle is the distinctive GWR safety valve cover, not a dome).
The typical locomotive firebox of the day was long and narrow, fitting in between the locomotive's frames. The successful design of a trailing truck with the firebox mounted behind the driving wheels (e.g. the Pacific or 4-6-2 class) not yet been developed. Wootten instead mounted his huge firebox above the locomotive's driving wheels. The ...
London & Birmingham Railway 2-2-0 Bury locomotive. The prominently raised firebox first appeared in 1830, in Bury's 0-4-0 locomotive Liverpool. This was the progenitor of his bar-frame locomotives and shared their distinctive boiler design. The inner firebox was D-shaped in plan, with a flat tubeplate.
Canadian Pacific 1278 is a preserved G5d class 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive built by the Canadian Locomotive Company for the Canadian Pacific Railway.After being retired from revenue service, the locomotive was purchased in 1965 by F. Nelson Blount for excursion trains at his Steamtown, U.S.A. collection.
[5] [7]: 18 Early American locomotives had bar frames, made from steel bar; in the 20th century they usually had cast steel frames or, in the final decades of steam locomotive design, a cast steel locomotive bed – a one-piece steel casting for the entire locomotive frame, cylinders, valve chests, steam pipes, and smokebox saddle, all as a ...