The Franco–Crosti boiler is a type of boiler used for steam locomotives. It was designed in the 1930s by Attilio Franco and Dr Piero Crosti. The main...

Ten locomotives (numbers 92020-92029) were built in 1955 with the Franco-Crosti boiler: 46  which incorporated a combustion gas feed water preheater that...

There have been a vast number of designs of steam boiler, particularly towards the end of the 19th century when the technology was evolving rapidly. A...

Franco-Crosti boiler; it was the last class of steam locomotives introduced in Italy. From 1940 the FS had experimented with the Franco-Crosti boiler...

experimentally built with Franco-Crosti boilers, thus forming a subclass. All ten were built in 1955 at Crewe Works. The Franco-Crosti boiler took the form of...

drum(s) found on the Franco-Crosti boiler. The use of live steam and exhaust steam injectors also assists in the pre-heating of boiler feedwater to a small...

Métallurgiques de Tubize in Belgium was the first locomotive ever with Franco-Crosti boilers. The 0-6-2+2-4-2-4-2+2-6-0 locomotive consisted of three articulated...

five 740 (numbers 339, 367, 392, 396 and 405) were rebuilt with a Franco-Crosti boiler, and fitted with a streamlined casing (more for aesthetical reasons...

the Nazis commandeer to pursue the escaping POWs is headed by a Franco-Crosti boiler-fitted Class 743. The railway sequence at the film's conclusion,...

used to trial new steam locomotive design features, including the Franco-Crosti boiler. On moving to Ireland, Bulleid also designed CIÉ No. CC1 which had...

locomotive 670.030 was rebuilt with a Franco-Crosti boiler. Articulated ducts carried the combustion gases from the main boiler to the preheater (placed on a...

very unique steam dryer mounted to the top of the boiler. This was similar to the Franco-Crosti boiler developed later. Freight engines with an 0-8-0 wheel...

(amongst those fitted with Caprotti valve gear) were rebuilt with Franco-Crosti boilers; initially classified into the Class S.685, in 1951 they were reclassified...

the PRR's heavy trackage and high axle loading, with a fat, free-steaming boiler that earned the type the nickname of 'Hippos' on the PRR. Two giant cylinders...

A single Class 671 cab-forward was rebuilt as a Class 672 with a Franco-Crosti boiler in 1939. Matthias N. Forney was issued a patent in the late 1860s...

engines under British Railways such as the Britannia 4-6-2s and the Franco-Crosti boilered Class 9 freight locomotives. In the 1980s, a large part of the works...

the original on 22 November 2008. Retrieved 8 February 2008. "The Franco-Crosti Boiler System". Industrial Locomotives: including preserved and minor railway...

1952, the firm of Henschel rebuilt locomotives 52 893 and 52 894 with Franco-Crosti economisers (Abgasvorwärmer). Because of the resulting higher axle load...

locomotive with 4 cylinders in 1894 Attilio Franco and Piero Crosti, Italy, invented the Franco-Crosti boiler Abraham Ganz, Austria-Hungary, founder of...

were given a boiler with smaller grate area in order to try to reduce the consumption of coal. After experience with Franco-Crosti boilers on Class 52...

class 4-8-4 steam locomotives built in its Hutt Workshops. First Franco-Crosti boilered locomotive built, Belgian State Railways No 2096, an 0-6-2+2-4-2-4-2+2-6-0...

into the class 623. Fitted with the Franco-Crosti boiler (with two pre-heaters placed on the sides of the boiler), these engines were visually distinctive...

The Sentinel boiler was a design of vertical boiler, fitted to the numerous steam wagons built by the Sentinel Waggon Works. The boiler was carefully designed...

cross-tube boiler was the most common form of small vertical boiler. They were widely used, in the age of steam, as a small donkey boiler, for the independent...

including notable Italians inventions such as, the 910 and 740 series “Franco-Crosti”locomotives. The B and C pavilions housed the furnaces and now display...

1'E G 56.17 42.90 Kriegslokomotive 1'E G 56.18 Rebuild from Br 52 m. Franco-Crosti preheater 44 044 Einheitslok 1'E G 56.20 also procured as 44 ÜK (Übergangskriegslok)...