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<p>[quote user="7j43k"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">BMMECNYC</div> <div class="quote-content"> <p> </p> <p>On the topic of feedwater heaters, only some of UP's 4-6-2s appear to have been superheated.  UP 3206 (OR&N 197) does not appear to have been superheated (no appliances visible on the locomotive, I would have expected at least a pump of some sort). </p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p> </p> </div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>Steam locomotives can have superheating with next to no external appliances.  I expect most or all of UP's Pacifics had superheating.</p> <p>I found no examples of feedwater heaters on these locomotives.</p> <p>Feedwater heaters are not equivalent to superheaters.</p> <p> </p> <p>On tenders, I found only one "square" tender.  All others were Vanderbilt.  Most were 4-wheel trucked, but there were some larger 6-wheel trucked, also.  Tenders came either as coal or oil equipped. </p> <p> </p> <p>Ed</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>This is what you get when you have to stop typing mid thought to go do something else.</p> <p> </p>
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