Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file
Infobox template for steam locomotive tenders Template parameters This template prefers block formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Name name name/class of tender Line required Image image Image of tender File optional Alternative text alt no description Line optional Image size imagesize image_size width of the image in pixels Number optional Caption caption Caption for ...
Collects steam at the top of the boiler (well above the water level) so that it can be fed to the engine via the main steam pipe, or dry pipe, and the regulator/throttle valve. [2] [5] [6]: 211–212 [3]: 26 Air pump / Air compressor Westinghouse pump (US+) Powered by steam, it compresses air for operating the train air brake system.
No description. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status name name The article title, e.g. 4-4-0 (The most commonly used name of the wheel arrangement, in brackets) Example 4-8-2 (Mountain) Line optional image (schematic) image Wheel arrangement schematic File optional image size (schematic) imagesize image_size no description Unknown optional alt alt ...
AOL latest headlines, entertainment, sports, articles for business, health and world news.
The locomotive was originally designed to be a steam turbine locomotive, but was instead redesigned to utilizing a traditional reciprocating drive as the development of the locomotive had continued. [9] It was designed using a duplex-drive which meant that it would be a duplex locomotive and was designed to be a cab-forward steam locomotive. [10]
Nos. 3000–19 (bought 1919) were also overhauled similarly to the new nos. 3020–49 between 1927 and 1929, but were not further renumbered. [2] The leading dimensions of the GWR 3000 Class were the same as the GCR Class 8K except that the GWR increased the boiler pressure to 185 psi (1,280 kPa) which increased the tractive effort from 31,327 ...
A steam generator is a form of low water-content boiler, similar to a flash steam boiler. The usual construction is as a spiral coil of water-tube , arranged as a single, or monotube , coil. Circulation is once-through and pumped under pressure, as a forced-circulation boiler . [ 1 ]