It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image is a steamy shot of locomotive 353 pulling out with it's load of passengers for a trip around the grounds. Locomotives open their cylinder cocks to let water escape that may have condensed while sitting and can damage the pistons if too much has built up and it tries to move against it. This creates all the steam as the locomotives move out after they have been sitting awhile because steam escapes along with the water.
Operating steam locomotives sounds like a complicated affair
ReplyDeleteIt is but it can become a bit of second nature as well.
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