[modeleng] Re: Tall Tales?
- From: "JESSE LIVINGSTON" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:38:22 -0600
I have had my RRSC American suddenly race from priming while on jacks and
running free. No superheat on the 4-4-0.
Unka Jess
> The second one refers to "Blue Peter" which was departing Durham with a
very
> high water level in the boiler. The driver was rather over enthuiastic,
the
> loco primed very badly, lost its feet and slipped so much that it
destroyed
> many pieces of motion work. This is from my mate referred to above who has
> seen a video of the incident in which pieces of motion work can be seen
> being thrown in the air! It is now part of a training video for aspiring
> mainline steam crew. Apparently when a large locomotive primes badly the
> solid water passing through the regulator valve makes it impossible to
close
> the regulator, the water then flashes into steam in the superheaters which
> were very hot as the loco had been standing in Durham station for a while.
> The vast volumes of steam produced then do the damage referred to.
>
> Barrie Purslow
> Warrington UK
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