[modeleng] Re: Visit to Houston, now Steam turbines

Al,

The "Titanic" had two big recips about like those in the "TEXAS" and they 
exhausted from the LP cylinders into a turbine to extract the last bit of 
pressure.  The turbine is supposed to have generated more power than the 
recip engines.  The turbine drove a third propeller between the ones driven 
by the recips.  I don't know what the hp of the recips in the Titanic was, 
but those in the TEXAS are 14,500 as best I can remember.  (Been ten years 
at least).

Oh, don't even think about building a steam turbine!  I made the one for my 
turbo generator on the 2-1/2" Shay and it was not a lot of fun.

Jesse in Troy, Tennessee

 Yes, those two ships are powered by turbines, and in
 comparison with the "uppers-and-downers", are quite
 petite.  In fact, if I remember correctly, the
 reduction gears were actually larger than the turbines
 themselves.  I have always wanted to do a scale model
 turbine, but I have never felt that I had the skill to
 do a job like that.

 Al Messer

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