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- A smokebox is one of the major basic parts of a steam locomotive exhaust system. Smoke and hot gases p**** from the firebox through tubes where they p****...
- the chimney in the smokebox. The steam entrains or drags the smokebox gases with it which maintains a lower pressure in the smokebox than that under the...
- exhaust system that discharges exhaust steam from the cylinders into the smokebox beneath the chimney in order to increase the draught through the fire....
- end of the boiler barrel, with the smokebox protruding ahead. A few designs did reach to the front of the smokebox and these were termed 'flatirons'.[citation...
- to a curved profile forward of the smokebox front. Spun gl**** mattresses were used for boiler lagging. The smokebox was a sheet metal fabrication to the...
- modified with a smokebox extension and a different feedwater heater within. 5698 was again modified by 1948 with a new (one-piece) smokebox, new cylinders...
- in US railway slang, are vertical plates attached to each side of the smokebox at the front of a steam locomotive. They are designed to lift smoke away...
- steam locomotive that discharges exhaust steam from the cylinders into the smokebox beneath the chimney in order to increase the draught through the fire....
- dry pipe into a superheater header mounted against the tube sheet in the smokebox. The steam is then p****ed through a number of superheater elements, which...
- outputs, a situation made worse by the narrowing of the firebox area. The smokebox had an inherent problem in maintaining a constant vacuum. This was a result...