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  1. clinker 支持 Jamessquared 在 GWR four-cylinder arrangement? 内发表的帖子.

    And the overall financial efficiency of that? You are falling into the same trap as everyone else, finding ever more elaborate workarounds to enable one technological option while ignoring the total cost of operation. Tom

    2026-07-11 , 14:49

  2. clinker 支持 Jamessquared 在 GWR four-cylinder arrangement? 内发表的帖子.

    Well no, it rather suggests that you have reached the limits of gigantism in steam locos and need to think of diesels or electrics if you want to increase power! The only places which seemed to be able to make giant steam locos work was where...

    2026-07-11 , 14:47

  3. clinker 支持 Sheff 在 GWR four-cylinder arrangement? 内发表的帖子.

    I would say that the unburnt fuel loss was more due the amount of fines that were generated by the screw feed system, which simply passed straight through the tubes and out of the exhaust without ever properly combusting. Take a look at the...

    2026-07-11 , 14:46

  4. clinker 支持 brennan 在 GWR four-cylinder arrangement? 内发表的帖子.

    Probably one of the reasons that Chapelon's work was abandoned by the senior management and the French railways adopted electrification, presumably paid for by the US of A.

    2026-07-10 , 22:30

  5. clinker 支持 Jamessquared 在 GWR four-cylinder arrangement? 内发表的帖子.

    How do you propose to fire a 6,000hp steam loco? That’s well beyond the capability of a single fireman, so you fall back presumably on a mechanical stoker - which rather throws away the enhanced cylinder efficiency by creating worse boiler...

    2026-07-10 , 22:29
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