Re: inside of a train boiler
Just a bit of further info, we are looking there into the smoke box, and those tubes that you can see are connected to the firebox in the cab and are surrounded by water which is then heated up to form the steam. When I briefly worked with locomotives in the 60's we sometimes had to replace those tubes when we refurbished the boiler, and a rotten filthy job is was too....Re: inside of a train boiler
Re: inside of a train boiler
High tech of its day. I often wonder when I look at some piece of engineering, how on earth does someone think up the idea, design it, and then actually manufacture it?
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