The Application of Superheated Steam to Locomotives












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View the history and the technical development early last century and try to get an understanding of the operation of the heart of steam locomotives.

This site also shows how the inventor of superheaters for locomotives and vital control equipment succeeded and how the economics shaped up.

 

A DETAILED AND REWARDING DEVELOPMENT

 

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Fig 28 (4-6-2) Superheated Steam Four Cylinder Compound Express Engine of the Baden State Railway

See detailed Design Drawing at the Bottom of this Page.  Design Drawings of different Locomotives are also shown on Page "Gallery".
















 

 

Experience last Century's Progress and visit the next Pages

 

Note the Content of this Site below:
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Plate 4 (4-6--2) Design Details of Fig 28 above. Locomotive Construction by J. A. Maffei, Munich















 

  • This Site was first made available on www:  August 2004
  • Last editing:  August 2004

The presented web site is an excerpt only of a more comprehensive text with various subjects, such as:
 
  • Application of superheated steam to locomotives - The Breakthrough
  • Description of superheaters for locomotives
  • Details of cylinders and pistons for high temperature application
  • Results of trials and of actual service with locomotives using high temperature steam
 
Construction details are displayed - showing:
 
  • 15 Photos of different locomotives operating prior to 1908
  • 5 Design drawings of different locomotives
  • Smoke box type superheater
  • Smoke tube superheater
  • Piston valves
  • Piston for superheated steam
  • Cylinder and details for superheated steam locomotives
  • Self adjusting air cooled stuffing box
  • Bypass valve arrangement
  • Results of trials and comparison with saturated steam locomotives

        Visit the exciting Pages attached and appreciate the Progress made in those Days

 
 
THIS SITE IS BASED ON A PUBLICATION FROM JUNE 1908 BY SCHMIDT'S SUPERHEATING CO., LTD - LONDON -
 
 
Abbreviated Version of an Unknown Author
 




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