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i love this video.... and it gets a lot of comments on youtube as to why these
locomotives operating in china.. are throwing up these fountains of fire.....
a few commentors have said i tis because china is burning a very cheap and inferior grade of
coal which contains a lot of contaminants that prevents it from going through a complete and
efficient burn inside the firebox.... others said it looked like the train was burning "the souls of
the damned"...
...
....... but someone i know who actually remembers the days when steam locomotives ran on
the tracks in the united states said it was not uncommon for a locomotive in those days to throw
up a shower of sparks and even flame when it was pulling a heavy load up a steep hill... ..
the reason was that the operators ...(or firemen as they were called) shovelled extra coal into
the firebox prior to taking on such hills so the heads.... fed by steam from the boiler...
would build up enough to pressure to get the locomotive up the hill... ..(it;s where the phrase...
"pouring on the coal"... came from..) ..... that extra heat from the extra coal. combined with the
higher steam pressure, meant some coal would be blasted out the stacks and end up burning in
the smoke and steam plume above the train..... inferior coal just made that fireshow all the more
intense..... .... ....and if you understood all then you are way ahead of me when it comes to coal fed
steam engine dynamics.... .....(provided i even re-explained it all right...)
in some parts of the video you can actually hear short bursts of the wheels slipping and spinning
as they lose traction and the pistons start hammering away.... only to return to a normal cadence
when traction is restored..... .. pretty awesome..... would love to see something like this in person...
would love to just see a coal fed steam locomotive in operation period......
locomotives operating in china.. are throwing up these fountains of fire.....
a few commentors have said i tis because china is burning a very cheap and inferior grade of
coal which contains a lot of contaminants that prevents it from going through a complete and
efficient burn inside the firebox.... others said it looked like the train was burning "the souls of
the damned"...
... ....... but someone i know who actually remembers the days when steam locomotives ran on
the tracks in the united states said it was not uncommon for a locomotive in those days to throw
up a shower of sparks and even flame when it was pulling a heavy load up a steep hill... ..
the reason was that the operators ...(or firemen as they were called) shovelled extra coal into
the firebox prior to taking on such hills so the heads.... fed by steam from the boiler...
would build up enough to pressure to get the locomotive up the hill... ..(it;s where the phrase...
"pouring on the coal"... came from..) ..... that extra heat from the extra coal. combined with the
higher steam pressure, meant some coal would be blasted out the stacks and end up burning in
the smoke and steam plume above the train..... inferior coal just made that fireshow all the more
intense..... .... ....and if you understood all then you are way ahead of me when it comes to coal fed
steam engine dynamics.... .....(provided i even re-explained it all right...)
in some parts of the video you can actually hear short bursts of the wheels slipping and spinning
as they lose traction and the pistons start hammering away.... only to return to a normal cadence
when traction is restored..... .. pretty awesome..... would love to see something like this in person...
would love to just see a coal fed steam locomotive in operation period......
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