[ARC5] Locomotives

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

Was it Pennsy or NY Central that had a few S-1(?) turbine locos? 
 
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> From: kgordon2006 at frontier.com
> To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:14:32 -0800
> Subject: Re: [ARC5] Locomotives
> 
> On 20 Dec 2012 at 22:19, Neil wrote:
> 
> > For this reason, the crank pins on the left side of the locomotive are
> > offset 90 degrees from those on the right, so at start-off only one
> > side actually gets the train moving until the wheels have rotated a
> > few degrees.
> 
> What always fascinated me about big steam locos was the undoubted weight 
> of the driving gear, especially the connecting rods: those things had to weigh 
> tons, and all that weight flailing up and down must have put tremendous 
> loads on various bearings.
> 
> And the pounding the tracks would have had to take must have been really 
> something.
> 
> I know the drivers had weights attached to them that counterbalanced the 
> weight of the rods, yet even so, physical forces cannot be ignored, only 
> somewhat compensated for.
> 
> I have always suspected that the use of steam-turbines was an attempt to 
> mitigate some of this. Too bad that idea never went very far on the railroads. 
> The Navy made good use of turbines though.
> 
> As I remember it, the Navy, at least for its destroyers, used Abner Doble's 
> method of steam generation.
> 
> Ken W7EKB