Found this in my feed yesterday. A little long but thorough.
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I watched some of this, but not all.
This video contains some of the best animation of the internal workings of a steam locomotive that I’ve ever seen. And his explanations of the parts and how they work (at least for the section I watched) were accurate and correct…with one exception.
Like so many people, he refers to the stoker as an “automatic” stoker. There is nothing “automatic” in the operation of a steam locomotive stoker. It is entirely under the manual control of the fireman. He controls the speed of the stoker and the setting of the distribution jets, which blow the coal out on to the fire.
