From: lfsheldon@gmail.com
On 5/21/2014 11:20 PM, Glen Labah wrote:
> In article ,
> Larry Sheldon wrote:
>
>> On 5/21/2014 12:38 AM, Glen Labah wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>> Larry Sheldon wrote:
>>>
>>>> One remaining question, or maybe two--why are the cylinders as far away
>>>> from the boiler as they can be? Do the exhausts lead back to the smoke
>>>> stack?
>>>
>>> Usually, at least one set does go back to the stack, and if you look at
>>> videos of them operating the stack has exhaust steam coming out of it.
>>> There doesn't seem to be steam exhaust from anywhere else either.
>>
>> (Some seem to losing steam EVERYwhere!
>
> In the first part of that first video, they use the cylinder cocks
> (steam only exits there when the cylinders are cold and are usually shut
> off after the locomotive is first moving) and a few other tricks to
> create a massive curtain of steam out of which the locomotive exits. I
> think this type of photo got popular after a few such photos came from
> railfans that had visited northern China in winter in the early to mid
> 1990s, when they still had steam in regular use.
>
> I've seen a few of those photos in slide shows back when 35mm slides
> were the primary medium of displaying this type of thing. Very cold air
> surrounding a very hot steam locomotive certainly created some
> spectacular scenes.
I forgot about the sfx aspect.
> However, trying to recreate the conditions of northern China on a very
> cold day on a steam trip in South Africa requires a bit of artistic
> efforts on the part of the crew. It can get cold in Cape Town, but
> further north is a different matter.
>
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