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Lets take a little different track (no pun intended) on consumables for steam locomotives. What about water? This can be a problem. In many places in the west an ample supply of water is limited and many times what is there was "bad water". The high mineral content of the bad water will foul the boiler and create problems. Several railroads had water conditioning plants to take some of the bad out of the bad water. I think some railroads in South America, in an attempt to cut down on water consumption, had condensers to condense the spent steam back into water and reuse it in the boiler.
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