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In the roaring days of the railroad, most railroads had dispensed with manually shoveling coal out of the tender. They used mechanical stokers to move the coal
by donarb 5y ago
In the roaring days of the railroad, most railroads had dispensed with manually shoveling coal out of the tender. They used mechanical stokers to move the coal from the tender to the firebox.
- Symbiote 5y agoMaybe in the USA, but they were barely used in the UK. From these discussions, it seems the (much) larger American locomotives and lower quality of coal required it. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/mechanical-stokers.33744/ https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/mechanical-stokers.3374... https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/manually-shovelling-coal-on-a-steam-engine-is-there-another-way.142322/ https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/manually-shovelling-coa...