[PRCo] Re: More DarwYn

[Boris Cefer]

May the packing of the piston and slide valve rods and drain valves are
leaking because of improper maintenance! The same with steam heating
connectors.
And those scads of smoke, steam and noisy exhausts when train with steam
locomotive at its head is arriving at station platform, obviously free
running under regular conditions.



> My favorite is the insistance by Hollywood directors that cylinder cocks
on
> steam locomotives should be open so that steam comes out.  (For those in
the
> electric railway field unfamiliar ... cylinder cocks are drain valves on
the
> bottom of locomotive cylinders and they are left open only long enough on
> starting an engine to allow condensed water in the cylinders that flashes
into
> steam to escape without blowing off the cylinder heads ... the time is in
> seconds not months.)  I also have problems with the History Channel (on
cable)
> for using illustrative material totally unrelated to the subject.