Pete, Apparently Johnson found it ok. However, I seem to remember that I have seen some kind of revised MM schedule. My problem is I do not know where, when...
Further to this, I searched Hugh's website and found Andrew Matthews article where a 1937 version of the MM front-end is named as a reference. Andrew, you are...
Hi Jos OK, understanding now a lot better from this explanation and your paper dated 28/02/00 on Hugh's site relating to multiple nozzle exhausts. As for this...
Ian Pascoe
softy.lofty.ilp@...
Feb 1, 2009 3:22 pm
64074
Colin thanks for letting us know. If you find yourself in on the engineering and design decisions, it would be interesting to follow. Ian ... From:...
Ian Pascoe
softy.lofty.ilp@...
Feb 1, 2009 8:11 pm
64075
Claude, Thanks for the scan on the booster manual. Dale [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Jos, I seem to recall there being some revisions to the MM front end, too. Have seen them in diagram form, but like you, can't recall where, or when? We must...
Pete wrote, ... For those who happen to be in London, here's the info for her first trip in the SE of the UK. C/O Mike Mundy of the Southern Electronic Mail...
Ian, Two matters on which you were quite correct: - 1. 'Tornado' will be *very* local to you, from my meagre standpoint, so please do keep us posted. 2. Any...
Gday Ian / All I have never seen such a formula. It would be interesting. However, as the exhaust ports in the liners,were typically 2.5 times the steam...
Mick, Ian, and all, This is an engaging a topic as the sizing of live steam piping, and not, in fact, greatly different in concept? When one ponders this ES...
Hi Ian, Regarding your comments on my still existing paper of 2000, please disregard the paper. I regard it nowadays as some first steps on a path leading...
herbgarratt wrote: "and yet more so, en Adelaide. I'm quite sure the Queen of the Belgians would swoon fair away, at the moment, if she were to to be so...
Peter, Believe it has been hot, en Adelaide? Similar here in Syd, but HUMID...! Terrible buckle in that road. Cheers, OP ... (114.3 ... at ... movements. ... ...
G'Day Blokes, Can anyone tell me what's the objection of underfeed stokers on locomotives? I've only seen reference to them used on the Porta improved Hunslet...
G'Day Again, Another wee question (hopefully this doesn't degenerate into a slagging match between personal preferences) to the group - I'm struggling to work ...
... slagging ... to work ... heaters while ... Actually, two different types of feedwater heaters were supplied by Worthington in North America. The BL was an...
The SA was open as well. John Rhodes On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:05 PM, survivingworldsteamlocomotives < ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Gday All I have uploaded 2 FE dwgs, 1- Master Mechanics Front End, copied from Johnsons "Steam Loco" 2- Ell Front Ends, copied from"The Concise Encyclopedia...
FWIW, the NZR used the ACFI system on about three dozen of the K/Ka/Kb series locos immediately before and during WWII. I gather that when all was well, it was...
Jos (primarily), and Mick, Did Johnson reproduce the 1900 version of the MM front end in his book, even though the book was written in 1940...if I understand ...
Pete, I have that page as #44 in my 4th reprint of the original second edition of 1945, as far as I can see. Title "the Steam Locomotive" by Ralph P. Johnson....
BS- IIRC, after trying them on the Hunslet locomotives, Porta decided the underfeed stokers weren't the way to go. I believe the main problem is that the...
Hugh and list: The Baltimore & Ohio used underfeed stokers, and according to a friend of mine who went from firefman to engineer, then road foreman, then mgt...
David Grover
eddyston@...
Feb 3, 2009 1:43 pm
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Jos, I stand corrected...the title of the Johnson book I have is 'The Steam Locomotive' (though it is the 1981 reprint), and as you say, on Page 44, there the...
Pete, In the mean time Andrew has been so kind as to send me a pdf of the MM 1937 publication. It is different from any research in that it defines the smoke...
Jos, Thanks for all that. Cheers, OP ... MM ... defines ... netting ... WWII ... say, on ... to ... the ... smokebox ... cap, ... loks we ... Locomotive" ... ...
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