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Re: [OM] Subject: Re: Steam train - not so OT?

Subject: Re: [OM] Subject: Re: Steam train - not so OT?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:26:44 -0500
Interesting.  I never heard of condensing tenders.  Makes perfect sense.

Chuck Norcutt

Dawid Loubser wrote:
>
> 
> One of the reasons why steam lasted so long in South Africa is because  
> coal has always been vastly cheaper than oil here, and even though
 > we are an extremely arid country, the main-line steam engines used
 > condensing tenders to recycle a large portion of the steam expelled 
from the
> cylinders.
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