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Steam locomotive components
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High-pressure steam locomotive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The latter means bigger cylinders to allow the exhaust steam to expand ... likely to be blasted out of the firebox door, with unhappy results for anyone in the way. |
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Aug 14, 2011 ... Open the steam cylinder drains. Open the firebox door, insert the igniter and light it at the burner. Open the gas valve ... The whole operation takes me about 45 – 60 + minutes to steam up for the day's running. This also takes ...
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Wood Door: 20" x 20" with gate & ash door. Cylinder Firebox: 1/2 " thick, 36" diameter, 36" long. Heats up to 4500 square ft. Outside Dimensions: 60"l x 48"w x ...
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Cylinder drain cocks, water by-pass-, boiler blow down valve and water gauge ... steam oil tank for cylinder lubrication, functional fire box door and a battery ...
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Next, the horsepower and cylinder sizes were computed based on 300 psi boiler ... As late as September, 1962, there were still four operational Big Boys at Green .... had been removed by either wrench or torch, the firebox door is welded shut, ...
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After filling the propane tank completely with water and soap and letting it sit for two weeks, I built ... That is why the tank is flat on the fire box side. ... This is very tricky because if you cut the door out before attaching hinges, the door will warp.
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The engine creeps slowly ahead, as he listens to and feels the operation of the ... He then comes down and refills the oil cans with cylinder oil and gets a new ... There is no automatic firebox door and the fireman has to open the door with one ...
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For a locomotive with three cylinders, the adhesive factor might be reduced to 3.5 to 1. ..... Adding the firebox was a complicated operation. ... sucked into the firebox by the draught (via the fire hole, often called a "fire door" in the US), which will ...
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overhauled, new brick arch installed in the firebox, ash pan door operating cylinder overhauled, buckets of scale removed from the tender, a new stainless steel ...
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