A jointed-boiler locomotive was a variant of the Mallet articulated locomotive, in which a flexible coupling was introduced midway along the length of...

were experiments with flexible boiler casings; from 1910 the Santa Fe road introduced jointed-boiler 2-6-6-2 locomotives weighing 392,000 lb (178,000 kg)...

the boiler, or low water level. Corrosion along the edges of lap joints was a common cause of early boiler explosions. In steam locomotive boilers, as...

Model Boilers, pp. 60–61. Milton, Marine Steam Boilers, pp. 138–141. "German high-pressure locomotives". Loco Locomotive gallery. Harris, Model Boilers, pp...

material (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the locomotive's boiler to the point where it becomes gaseous and its volume increases 1...

Kalmbach Publishing. "The Jointed-Boiler Locomotives," Trains magazine, February 1945 "The Allegheny Type Locomotive". SteamLocomotive.com. Archived from the...

part of a locomotive boiler is the firebox, it was an effective design to use a water-tube design here and a conventional fire-tube boiler as an economiser...

the horizontal. These tubes were jointed into cast iron headers and gave much trouble with leakage at these joints. At the time, an assumption was that...

until the locomotive was in motion. By the time the patent was granted, the experience of the existing triplexes and jointed-boiler locomotives had shown...

couplings to withstand and the boiler did not produce enough steam to operate the locomotives at higher speeds. The triplex locomotives for the Erie Railroad were...

accommodate the steam (steam space). This is the type of boiler used in nearly all steam locomotives. The heat source is inside a furnace or firebox that...

fireless locomotive, where separately-generated steam is transferred to a receiver (tank) on the locomotive. The steam generator or steam boiler is an integral...

This is a list of steam boiler explosions such as railway locomotive, marine transport (military and civilian), and stationary power: List of boiling liquid...

injectors as boiler feed devices.) Sonora's universal joints with sliding coupling between Engine of Shay locomotive built by Lima Locomotive Works (s/n...

2-6-6-2 articulated steam locomotives built in 1910 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. They were jointed-boiler locomotives, an experiment confined to...

the boiler and cab unit moved inward, reducing the centrifugal force, whereas the Mallet's forward articulated unit moved out as the locomotive rounded...

double-ended steam locomotive, carrying all its fuel and water aboard the locomotive and with every axle driven. It had a double-ended boiler, with one firebox...

advanced monotube boiler for them. Woolnough boiler a three-drum water-tube boiler used for their larger locomotives. locomotive boiler used on the handful...

several classes of locomotive, mostly to the designs of Nigel Gresley, characterised by a three-cylinder layout with a parallel boiler and round-topped...

produced something unlike any other Derby-designed locomotive of the time. The design used the G9AS boiler from the Midland Compounds, with a Belpaire firebox...

George Stephenson built a number of experimental steam locomotives to work in the Killingworth Colliery between 1814 and 1826. George Stephenson was appointed...

the boiler with some force by steam pressure within the boiler. Bottom blowdown used with early boilers caused abrupt downward adjustment of boiler water...

the war and post-war economies. In addition, the locomotives featured thermic syphons in their boilers and the controversial Bulleid chain-driven valve...

maintain compared with the boiler design adopted for Rocket and most steam locomotives since. The most prominent feature for the boiler is the vertical copper...

was re-boilered in 1888 and 1913. The third and current boiler was made in 1923 for No. 2 "Derby" and was fitted in 1951 after that locomotive was broken...

most common form of steam locomotive also contains a boiler to generate the steam used by the engine. The water in the boiler is heated by burning combustible...

the extensive and costly stays of the locomotive boiler. This also allowed the boiler to be made with a bolted joint in the outer shell and so the whole...

Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR) Sentinel locomotives were two small vertical-boilered, chain-driven steam locomotives for shunting. They were...

spiral tubes meant that the boiler could be "forced" from cold, without the risk of damage that a locomotive- or launch-type boiler might suffer. The central...

The Midland Railway 483 Class 4-4-0 was a class of steam-driven locomotive designed by Henry Fowler for passenger work on the Midland Railway. The class...