Fireless Steam Locomotive

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Fireless Steam Locomotive

Post by cyberbadger » Tue Sep 28, 2021 9:13 pm

I've seen videos of this done with compressed air tank locomotives for use in mines were they are worried about fire.

Fireless Steam Locomotive in Herne, Germany, Dampfspeicherlok (Steam storage locomotive)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0wvPDgDloA

The company is Sassol Solvents in Herne, Germany.

They probably have stationary boilers making steam for other processes so it may make sense in their application.

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Re: Fireless Steam Locomotive

Post by RNoe » Wed Sep 29, 2021 7:36 pm

Porter Co. (USA) built various fireless locomotives.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireless_locomotive
Several still exist in the US.
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