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    The Trofimoff valve (German: Trofimoff-Schieber) (also Trofimov, Troffimoff or Trofimof) is a springless pressure-compensation piston valve for steam...
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    driver. Cutoff Reversing gear Steam locomotive nomenclature Trofimoff valve Steam Locomotive Valve Gear Archived 5 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine Animations...
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    the regulator, the Trofimoff piston valves were removed. The Trofimoff piston valve consisted of two fixed discs secured to the valve spindle, and two junk...
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    the time, fitted engine no. 851 with Trofimoff type by-pass piston valves as an experiment. The Trofimoff valve was claimed to afford ideal conditions...
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    was eventually removed. In 1935, number 2544 Lemberg received Trofimoff piston valves of an ingenious design with automatically varying steam passages...
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    driven by Heusinger valve gear with Kuhn slides. The factory-fitted Schulz piston valves were late replaced by Trofimoff piston valves. These gave better...
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    qualities when running light. Not until the 1980s were Trofimoff valves and cylinder safety valves installed on some locomotives at RAW Meiningen. This...
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    rebuild, IfS/DR mixer preheaters, pressure-compensating piston valves (Trofimoff valves) and new Stühren ash pans were installed. The wider outer firebox...
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    combustion chambers, mixer-preheater systems, new welded cylinders, Trofimoff valves and Witte smoke deflectors. The reinforced Type 58E Rekokessel was...
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    axle, the locomotives had Heusinger valve gear with unsprung Müller balanced slide valves and, later, Trofimoff valves. These Neubaulokomotiven were a fully...
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    with three full bore boiler safety valves (Ackermann valves, nominal width 60). The engines were given Trofimoff valves and, apart from 01 501 and 01 520...
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  • documents were handwritten notes headed "Micromachining Project" and "Micron-Valve Project", and a document that an expert at the trial linked to the ALARM...
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