The following three English translations from the German of engineering papers by Von Dr. Ing. Arnold Tross, are available for download. Sincere thanks to Matt Janssen of the Vapor Locomotive Company, who commissioned the translations, for making them available to ASTT: Mathematical-Graphic Method for the Calculation of Rigid Staybolts with new design Shafts under all […]
Landau D., “Two Point Four Pounds per Ton – A Ramble through the History of Railway Mechanics“, 2003. Landau D., “Boiler Statistics – British Railways Maintenance Costs 1953-57“, published in SLS Journal Sept Oct 2004. Landau D., “From Shovels to CTs – Measuring the Energy of Trains“, published by the Railway Performance Society (date unknown).
A theoretical minimum amount of oxygen is needed to react with the combustible elements (mainly carbon and hydrogen) in a given quantity and type of fuel. In practice an additional (or excess) quantity of air is required to ensure adequate contact between fuel and oxygen to guarantee efficient combustion. There are no hard-and-fast rules defining […]
ASTT’s website forum is controlled through a “plug-in” (extension of its WordPress platform) called BBPress. Like WordPress, BBPress defines the level of functionality that it makes available to users. Like WordPress, BBPress specifies a range of “User Roles” each with predefined “permissions” that limit what each user can do on the Forum. The default bbPress […]
Introduction: This website contains a number of different forums each of which is listed in the Forum page. The name of each forum defines the subject area that it covers. Each Forum is a collection of Topics that can be added and discussed by members (through the addition of comments) as described in the following […]
Instructions for adding “Posts” To add a post logged-in members must first access the back-end of the website by clicking on the Dashboard icon at the top left-hand corner of any page (see below). Clicking on the “Posts” option in the left-hand menu will open a new page as shown below: On this page all […]
Instructions to Associate Members regarding access to the “back-end” of the website: When logged-in, members have access to a number “back-end” functions. These can be found by clicking on the “Dashboard” link at the top-left-hand corner of a page, as below: This will take them to the back-end section with a menu of options at […]
This section describes some features of the Front-End of the website – being the part that you and others see when the website is opened in a browser. A desciption of the “back-end” (which is only accessible by logged-in members) is described on a separate page. User Registration and Passwords: every member of AST should […]
ASTT’s website is built on a WordPress platform which defines, and sometimes limits, the level of functionality that it can offer to users. “User Roles” are one example of the functionality that the platform offers, each role level being assigned “permissions” that define what users can do on the website. WordPress’s default setting defines five […]
The basic information contained in a Member’s personal profile (as set up by the webmaster) contains consists only of the Member’s name; username and email address. A logged-in member will have created their own password which is also accessible (i.e. changeable) through the Profile page. Editing Personal Profile through the Front End of the […]
Following the unexpected demise of the old 5AT website, the 200-odd pages that were recoverable were transferred to a new “5AT section” that’s been set up on the back of ASTT’s website – see 8 Jun 2017 News report. Links to the home pages of the AST and 5AT sections have been provided in the […]
Too many presentations on the 5AT Project have been made to record them all here. A small selection is therefore offered as follows: 2003: Brienz Conference presentation by Alan Fozard (also in text format); 2005: “Design and development of a Second Generation Advanced Technology Steam Locomotive” by Alan Fozard and John Hind, as given to […]