QUOTE: Originally posted by marknewton QUOTE: Originally posted by TomDiehl In the 30's locomotive manufacturers started adding appliances (car buffs would call these accessories) to increase the steaming and efficiency of locomotives. Superheaters, feed water heaters, thermic siphons, etc, All of these appliances predate the 1930s. In the US, superheaters were common on road power after the general adoption of the Schmidt-type return bend element in 1910. Feedwater heaters are even older in overseas practice, but became common in the US after 1920. Likewise, syphons, circulators and arch tubes were common overseas from the early 1900s onwards, and were adopted in the US around WWI. Cheers, Mark.
QUOTE: Originally posted by TomDiehl In the 30's locomotive manufacturers started adding appliances (car buffs would call these accessories) to increase the steaming and efficiency of locomotives. Superheaters, feed water heaters, thermic siphons, etc,
QUOTE: Originally posted by t.m.Enzo Thank you very much for the replies, that is good information to absorb. Robert, regarding the B&O GPs, in my years watching them (during the 1950s) they might face either way in switching, but at the head of a train going somewhere, they almost always went long way first. Of course all that changed when they lowered the short hoods and added wide windshield windows to later models. Much of my trackside time was spent in Brunswick, MD, watching the activity around the roundhouse and engine servicing facility. A lot of great places to see trains in the Potomac valley. The old roundhouse fell into ruin, sadly.
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