A steam locomotive is known to be able to pull more then any pure combustion engine locomotive. (Uncited)

Why didn’t oil fired steam locomotives take off?

This started when I watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hszu80NJ438

During the runtime, it mentioned oil fired retrofits.

I search it up, and found one.

It was an overview video of a modern retrofit, and it seems to not be too difficult to retrofit, even using the same steam blaster to spread the oil in the smoke box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up1UaMVnv4M

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    10·
    11 hours ago

    They’re very heavy, have no wings, and once they get off the ground they lose propulsion.