I wonder why the driver has a chair, and what for, and what also the fireman is doing – t seems to be bugger all…?
h’t Bodwyn Wook
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I wonder why the driver has a chair, and what for, and what also the fireman is doing – t seems to be bugger all…?
h’t Bodwyn Wook
Big V8 Mopar mills have much to recommend them, as Jo Dee Messina explains right here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNOUNFNYAmA
[ “Bye Bye!” to the ‘Old Order’ !!! ]
Tony
The driver has a chair so he can sit, the fireman and the conductor also often had chairs as well
The fireman is operating the mechanical stoker, adjusting the feed water supply and maintaining boiler pressure
As to the larger engines in the USA, this has to do with the longer distances which often was not double tracked or have elaborate signaling due to the high cost of doing such work, so on such track it is more efficient to run a few large trains rather then many smaller trains. Also US labor costs were higher so it was also cheaper to have one relatively expensive crew move one 10,000 ton train then it was to have two expensive crews to move two 5,000 ton trains
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