fallapart.However,itencouragedotherengineerstotrytobuildsteamlocomotives.TwoofthemostimportantmentoacceptthechallengewereGeorgeStephensonandhisson,Robert.Robertoncewonacontesttobuildthebestlocomotive.TheRocket,ashecalledit,hadanaveragespeedof20milesperhour,andthetopspeedwas29milesperhour.InAmerica,developmentsin...
Nigel Gresley was installed as president and delivered an address in which he took, as his main theme, the recent developments in steam locomotives. Forty years ago, the late Mr. Samuel Johnson, in the same position, gave a comprehensive address on the mechanical equipment of British railways...
which is a constant HP machine. On the surface it would seem that a constant force machine would be great for a locomotive and indeed in some respects it is. Since the force or pull of a steam loco is constant regardless of speed what does that say about HP?
The operating of the locomotive, and of all other steam-engines, is a process of transforming the heat energy of coal into mechanical work. In some kinds of engines driven by hot air or gas, the operation of converting heat into work is done without the use of steam. A greater ...
but BAGRS had a few coal-fired locomotives with tiny shovels shoveling anthracite into tiny fireboxes. After loading up with water and getting the firebox nice and hot, these locomotives will cruise around the oval track for about half an hour, with the speed of the locomotive controlled by...
bygone era - into the 30ies of the past millenium. This period was dominated by speed. Thus considerable efforts were made in the German Reich to speed up the journey time by rail. In 1931 the decision was taken to develop a high speed locomotive for average travelling speeds of 150 km/...
* Can you finance both the most extensive track network and the most powerful locomotives? * Which routes will give You the best returns on their costs? * Can you beat the opponents to the most profitable shipments? * Will you make enough money to pay your investors?
The Locomotives on Highways Act of 1896 lifted the restriction on speed of mechanically-propelled vehicles to 14 mph (22.5 km h−1). By 1896, however, Britain had been left out of the steam car race and most of the machines used on its roads were imported. The new legislation did, ...
so it is not surprising that public ambivalence extended to the steam locomotive and rail travel as well. It signified to many the destruction of the countryside and a change in the old agrarian based social order. In conjunction with this shift, which was really a shift to a capitalist econ...
“If East Germany had survived for much longer, then diesel locomotives would have replaced the steam. Equally, in a Western country, the railway would probably have been closed years before – just as its equivalent on the other side of the border actually was.” ...