Steam could be raised much more quickly than with a conventional locomotive boiler.

Previous locomotive boilers consisted of a single pipe surrounded by water.

It also produced the first locomotive boiler explosion in the US.

Welded construction for locomotive boilers was extremely slow to take hold.

By this time, the locomotive boiler had become ubiquitous for traction engines.

The waste wood is burned in the locomotive boilers.

The plates of early locomotive boilers were joined by simple overlapping joints.

Steam for the engines was provided by four coal-fired locomotive boilers.

A large locomotive boiler may require several thousand stays to support the firebox.

The upper sheet of the inner firebox on a locomotive boiler.

It could, for example, replace locomotive boilers and fireboxes.

The most vigorous boiling in a locomotive boiler takes place around the hottest part, the firebox.

Unusually for Sentinel, it used a conventional locomotive boiler.

As locomotives are being restored, some pacific type 4-6-2 locomotive boilers show signs of having been painted dark green.

Model locomotive boilers: their design and construction.

This condition, usually caused by human error or inattention, is the single greatest cause of a locomotive boiler explosion.

This was a conventional traction engine-style overtype with a locomotive boiler.

The engines were supplied with steam by six locomotive boilers split into two boiler rooms.

Remember Andre Malraux's book about revolutionaries being thrown into locomotive boilers?

Steam was generated in a standard locomotive boiler, with superheater, and passed to a turbine generator.

Transverse boilers are broadly similar to locomotive boilers in construction.

This included a second preheater boiler underneath the actual locomotive boiler itself.

No inexpensive treatment for the highly mineralised water was available and locomotive boilers were lasting less than a quarter of the time normally expected.

Locomotive boilers though, as used here, had greater capacity and could provide a mechanical plant that could run continuously for long periods.

In 1995, the Federal Railroad Administration issued new safety standards for steam locomotive boilers.