I bet they did not allow children to ride in the locomotive with their fathers! I wonder why the superheating was so dangerous? I guess we might find out in the future if the main source of output power for LENR devices are steam engines.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Wed, Dec 7, 2011 6:13 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Discussion of "saturated steam locomotive" versus "superheated" from Railroad Age Gazette David Roberson <dlrober...@aol.com> wrote: I hope these steam locomotives are not bombs looking for a chance to explode! They often did explode, unfortunately, even in the 1930s, at the pinnacle of the technology. Maybe a single pipe explosion or an accident was more common than a boiler failure . . . I do not know. As I said, I read somewhere that superheater failures and explosions were common in some types of locomotives, so they stopped using them. I remember reading the memoir of a steam locomotive engineer who said they lived in fear of explosions, and saw a lot of people killed by them. Marine steam engines were terribly dangerous, according to my dad who was a fireman in the 1930s. These were oil fired, "when you finally got the damn thing to light." Jed, I gather from the remainder of the article that a saturated steam locomotive is used in some applications. This suggests to me that the quality of the steam is pretty good. Yup. It was definitely used on the simpler, cheaper engines. That is what this and other sources say, including Wikipedia. - Jed
