Page Under Development This page is still “under development”. Please contact the webmaster@advanced-steam.org if you would like to help by contributing text to this or any other page.’ As stated on the Exhausts page under the “Terms and Definitions” section of this website, Wardale defines the exhaust system as “thermodynamically the heart of a locomotive which […]
The concept of the Kordina named after its inventor Zsigmond Kordina (see below), is described on page 153 of Wardale’s book “The Red Devil and Other Tales from the Age of Steam”, its function being to: “expand the release steam to low pressure and high velocity at the point where the exhaust flows from the […]
The application of GPCS or “Gas Producer Combustion System” to locomotive fireboxes is explained in great detail in pages 78 to 92 of Dave Wardale’s book “The Red Devil and Other Tales from the Age of Steam“. Basically it is a 19th century technology involving the blowing of oxygen over heated coal to make “Producer […]
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