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Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:42 am

The steam leaking at the front is deliberate, as the driver has the cylinder steam cocks open and just a smidge on the regulator to blow through and stop steam condensing in the piston valves and cylinders and turning to water. Water wont compress and if the driver starts the engine with water in the valves or cylinders it will blow out the ends of the cylinders.

= SUPA DUPA NERD

jammy395 · Unread post by **jammy395** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:43 am

Sandman wrote:

Nice one Sandman.....It eh, looks kind of angry.

jammy395 · Unread post by **jammy395** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:46 am

Doc - aka Casey Jones.

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Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:50 am

Driving steam locos is not like a car or even a modern diesel or electric loco. You have to nurse the thing as though it were living.

I (with some refresher) would be allowed to fire it but not drive it, though I know how.

Unread post by **terrybooth** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:47 am

I didn't discover this until after he went but my brother-in-law's father qualified as a driver on steam in the late sixties - so one of the last driver to qualify for steam on BR.

Sandman · Unread post by **Sandman** » Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:59 pm

Few more pics here Trains if anyone's interested

oh and cheers Jammy I liked that pic best

Mon Jan 11, 2016 11:28 pm

For jammy -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSiVWkk5zaQ

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