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Steam Locomotive - Basic Form - Boiler
... Although other types of boiler have been tried both historically and laterally with steam locomotives, their use did not become widespread, and the Firebox Fire-tube boiler has been the dominant source of ... when fired up, typically employs a steel firebox fire-tube boiler that contains a heat source to the rear, which generates and maintains a head of ... The fire-tube boiler is characterised by internal tubes connected to the firebox that guide the smoke and hot combustion gases through the pressurised wet ...
Boiler - Overview - Configurations
... Boilers can be classified into the following configurations "Pot boiler" or "Haycock boiler" a primitive "kettle" where a fire heats a partially filled water container from below. 18th century Haycock boilers generally produced and stored large volumes of very low-pressure steam, often hardly above that of the atmosphere ... Fire-tube boiler ...

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