Title: Serious about Steam
Product review: You are serious about steam locomotives and consider yourself knowledgeable about the various types and their strengths and weaknesses, but crave to understand the technical details in more detail. For example, you know what an injector does, but how exactly does it work? How do designers decide whether to use Walschaerts or Stephensons or Bakers valve gear? How does a superheater work and why does it increase a locomotive's efficiency so dramatically? If these are the kind of questions that intrigue you, then this is the book for you.Most of the examples are taken from British locomotive engineering practice, but the principles described are generic. Unfortunately, some of the photographs are poorly rendered and the details described in the text are sometimes hard to see, but the descriptions are very detailed and precise. If the photographs had been better I would have rated this volume 5 stars.
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