How To Fire A Steam Locomotive V2.0 In HD 

Actually steam engines have more power at stall than a diesel because electric motors take all the power till they are moving decently fast

I saw that LMS film too.

ODIL TM It truly is a good video. I live in America and I lost watching those old films. And the little and often rule is a true rule. Too much coal is bad and too little is just as bad if not worse

dylan palombo exactly true!

Rick Hobson lol

I know this is a 2 year old post but it cracked me up... 😂

Yeah they definitely used fish-eye lenses back then

Thank you captain Obvious !

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Cristi Neagu really I'm a diesel locomotive guy but I still love steam engines and just happen to come across this video for no apparent reason toy and model trains have always fascinated me I don't care what size they are it's just a train it doesn't matter

Cristi Neagu ya that are cool

NIOC630 yaaaay

OMG YOUR RIGHT!!!

DAMNNN YOURE RIGHT!!!!!. But hes Not bald

The train looks like the polar express

OMG that true

You know, the engineer from the movie is acctually an engineer on the Pere Marquette 1225 (the real polar Express if you know) I met him on Flagg coal co 75. He was our engineer.

+trainroomgary Thank You!

Thank you! Yes, several new How-To's are scheduled for summer filming. A shutdown video will be one of them.

+The Steam Channel Another question for you, where is your railroad located? It is very beautiful.

he should've worn gloves though. most steam engineers where gloves because is keeps the ash and soot off their hands.

+Prowler901 Thank You! Check out our Facebook page (linked above) and you'll see some teaser CAD drawings for an upcoming How-To Series being developed.

Rick Sorber it takes 45 minutes to fire the engine (not withstanding video outtakes). This video was shot in the afternoon one day in October so we lost day light sooner.

Thank you!

How are you supposed to pour it ? I'm 60 and I still don't know - Oh yeah backwards.Great when you watch a film to the end

David Grisez no one does

+elmin2323 Thank You!

Timothy DeMarco They are but their not used for proper work anymore

Trains Vs Nerf The Strasburg Railroad actually makes freight runs from time to time I hear.

kenskip1 By 'cycles' you really mean 'strokes'. All engines are 1 cycle; some are 2 stroke (admission/compression & power/exhaust) and some are 4 stroke (admission, compression, power & exhaust). Steam engines are 2 stroke (admission/power {steam pressure} & exhaust). 2). All wheel-axle assemblies are press fit together using a (usually) 600 ton wheel press. Thus, wheels are permanently tied together and cannot rotate independantly of each other. The cylindars/pistons are like the ones in your car. The main rods are the connecting rods. And the main driver is the crankshaft. 3). Most steam locomotives have 2 cylindars. Some, like Shays and Union Pacific's FEFs, used 3. Articulateds, like the UP Big Boy, used 4. {The Virginian had 2 & the Erie had 1 that used 6 - the 'tri-plexes'.} 4). Sides are timed 90 degrees out-of-time to each other. In the beginning, cylindars were timed 180* to each other. However, it was discovered that if the locomotive was stopped with one side dead forward and the opposite side thus stopped dead rearward, the lovomotive couldn't be started because the main rods didn't know whether to move down (forward) or up (rearward) as the pressure/motion was dead straight. This was solved by timing the drivers a quarter turn off from each other. Thus, all 2 cylindar engines (engines!) are timed 90* apart. Shays - with 3 cylindars - are timed 120* apart. Hope that clears some of it up for you. ~B.

Almost,Seeing as how the steam is sent into the cylinder on both ends of the cylinder, this would make it a 1 stroke? Also, are the drivers or wheels from say the right side in a direct connection with the left side? Sort of like posi traction setup?I now understand about the timing. So basically the crankshaft is the rear wheels?Again, are both sides or wheels, drivers permanently connected together?Thank you for your time and effort, Ken

kenskip1 A steam engine (cyls/pstns/rods/drivers) is a 1 cycle - 2 stroke design. What is confusing is that since steam is applied to both sides of the piston, each cylinder has two cycles per driver revolution; and each of those cycles is overlapped exactly halfway. This is because as steam is applied to the front face of the piston, it is also exhausting from the back face of the piston at the same time. Then the reverse is true. Think of 2 rows of bricks where the top row is exactly halfway overlapping the bottom row. Each side of the piston gets 2 strokes -steam in then steam out - for 1 completed cycle. 2 cycles for one completed driver revolution. 2). The wheels on all railroad equipment that run on tracks are solid units - the left side cannot turn independant of the right. This is why at low speed when a train is going around a curve you'll (sometimes) hear 'track groan': because outside needs to travel farther than the inside. But because the wheels and axle are fuse together into a solid unit, the outside wheel makes up the distance by skidding - and that's the low pitched groan you'll hear. It's like a crunching noise.

Bryan, OK you have answered my questions and I thank you. Sort of like my Polaris atv, the outer wheel seems like it tears up the dirt more than the inner wheel.So on the left side as steam is entering the front of the piston, just the opposite is happening on the other side, stem is now entering the rear of the piston. Thanks Ken

+long dong silvers Thank you!

+Lar Mayotte Thank You!

Lary Mayotte fccHi! Iwas great to see I am 90 years old,back when I was 15 I was lighting up the real big engines,I wanted to be an Engineer but after working 3 weeks they found that that I was Color blind so they fired me .so after when I turned 16 I joined the Navy and worked as a stoker,after the war I worked as a stationary engineer and retired when I turned 60.

Benjamin Br0

And what would be the point? You’d be riding a machine that’s belching out smoke and soot while shoveling coal into it. And greasing/oiling it throughout the day.