Billy Von Bomb
Sant77
Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson
AgentofSocialMediaChaos
Sandman
REDPILLMARRIED
LiberumArbitrium
Gonzo17ab
Freshfit
Grims Dungeon Of Degeneracy
The Alex Jones Show
Why do USA steam trains make smoke, but UK ones don't? ( Brilliant Audio )
5
0
51 Views
Published on 20 Jun 2023 / In
Film & Animation
A facebook post spawned a desire to cover this topic of secondary air, and why smoke is made. Hopefully it helps your understanding of locomotives :)
Special thanks to Dynamo Productions for letting me use their footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?....v=uNF89H1ETRE&t=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRX_0tHnq7c
LMS Training Video, uploaded by the Bennett Brook Railway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4J2wcDP3YA
Merch: https://hyce.creator-spring.com/
Join my discord: https://discord.gg/K5JgTrTDHQ
Become an ES&D Train Crew Member and get extra perks!
https://www.youtube.com/channe....l/UCHUb_Wty4v2ddZqbx
Show more
0
Log in to comment
3:18 - like loco shots = brilliant audio...
This guy really knows his stuff too.
It really is hard to give an extremely comprehensive talk with all the details...
I have always been virulently furious over excessively smokey steam locomotives - running properly - or a good HOT fire, they are running slightly on the rich side, or if they are cruising along with very little load or on a long down hill slope, they can lean right off to stop developing excessive speed... the fire gets cooler... less steam, more engine braking...
REALLY rich running engines with enormous amounts of fuel being ONLY partially burned ONLY makes for a COLD fire and huge amounts of smoke...
Big clouds of BLACK or GREY smoke, means to make these numbers up, your using say 6 tons of oil or coal per 100 Km, instead of 1.5 tons per 100 Km...
It's dumb, fuel is expensive and every one who has to breath that shit in gets cancer....
Smoke comes in two colours - gray for coal and black for oil.
And smoke is not STEAM - steam depending up the air temperature, is mostly clear on a hot day or white on a cold day....
So don't get sucked into the "OH my god - look at all the smoke!" as giant WHITE clouds of STEAM fill the atmosphere above and being the moving train....
well done to this guy for knowing his topic, good video.
btw, american steam engines where all pretty much built for more efficiency which creates better speed and stronger engine...
allowing the engines to travel farther and be able to haul more...
if it is a proper steam engine it makes white smoke...
the other is either diesel or coal...
also, locomotive is a general term covering all train engines...