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To: Navy Patriot

A classmates grandfather was an engineer, not train driver but a mechanical engineer, for the Santa Fe. I was able to acquire a paper he wrote on front end design of locomotives. All about draft through the flue.

There is another paper about how to buy coal. They did road tests with a dynamometer car carefully measuring ton miles of tractive force per lb of coal, ash and so forth. Real honest to goodness thermodynamic engineering.


57 posted on 04/15/2014 8:00:28 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Sequoyah101

Here she is, and definitely in service in this undated photo.

She has steam supplied while standing in makeup.

69 posted on 04/16/2014 6:00:50 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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