At 09:35 AM 7/6/01 -0700, you wrote: >Would there not have been the facility to "bleed" wet steam with a hose to put >out a fire? That would be called the "steam lance", principally used for cleaning down the locomotive after a run (or in the US, after 12 months or 50,000 miles, whichever occurs sooner). >Or at least use tender water? Sometimes things were rigged so that the feedwater from the injector could be diverted and used. I wouldn't have wanted to be the "nozzle man" though. Cheers, Harry
