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American steam locomotive efficiency- the effect of blastpipe size and superheat levels.
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<div>@Firelock76</div> <div>However, maybe he could have had a chance to fly over the bridge with a "J", if available that time.</div> <div>Faux Pax : How I could dare to mess up C. Chaplin with a Buster Keaton Movie. Sorry about that...It was Buster, of course.</div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>@Dreyfusshudson,</div> <div></div> <div>you have started one of the most interesting threads on the web, I have long time looking for.</div> <div>Thank you for sharing and presenting all your interesting data.</div> <div></div> <div>Will send you a private mes. for solving your .zip problem, but I do not see any reason for limiting data files to 500kb.</div> <div>Just try to send it some way, any package, program or file-extension is fine to me.</div> <div></div> <div>If you have correspondence with Mr. Wardale, ask him about his dream steam-engine from the past, to "Wardale" it and improving it to next stage- </div> <div>he will answer you "The Allegheny". </div> <div>( source at.co.uk/uploads/Articles%20and%20papers/lr_w3.pdf Sorry link is obsolete and unavailable now, from German magazine )</div> <div></div> <div>Hope to help you for input-data, I can scan you the 1943 Big Boy tests results from Kratville, if you do not have the book.</div> <div>They show in a some nice way, how efficiency goes down, when the engine is hard working with a heavy a train.</div> <div>Their output looked OK when they were handled as originally suppossed, to take a 3600tons train. </div> <div>However, long time seeking for an answer, how they did actually handle 20% heavier trains, as a 1948 showsTT shows.</div> <div></div> <div>Cheers</div> <div></div> <div>-lars</div>
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