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Are steam engines better now in preservation than they were in ordinary service

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Stub Mandrel23/10/2010 12:03:35
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It's worth noting that steam locos have their greatest torque avauilable when stationary, which gives them a real advantage when startiong a stationary train over, say, deisel, even if they have lest tractive effort available.
 
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Nicholas Farr23/10/2010 13:01:54
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Hi, refering to Neil's thread, this is why goods loco's have smaller wheels because you put more power into a shorter distance. I can remember when I was just a mini me we lived on top of our railway very close to the station and the kiddies playground is dead opposite the station, on occastions when a passenger train started off you would see the wheels slip. Despite theses loco's being bigger and heavyer than the goods loco's, I can't ever remember a very long goods train doing this, in them days we had as many if not more goods trains as passenger trains, and they were always slower.
 
Steve, I believe the 9F's have coparatively smaller wheels than most of the passenger loco's of the same size, and were used for goods traffic for most of thier service.
 
Regards Nick.
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