Re: Automatic Fire Control

Not to contradict Kelly, but there are automatically controlled steam boilers, and some of those are even installed in railroad locomotives.


For instance, early in the diesel era, when passenger cars were still steam-heated, some locomotives had steam generators to provide steam heat to the passenger cars that previously had received steam from the steam locomotive.


Quoting from the WP GP7 operations locomotive manual, steam generator section:

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WP GP7 operations locomotive manual
Operation is completely automatic after the steam generator is started ...

See Section 6 (starting at page 600) in the Operators Manual here: [www.wplives.org]

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Of course, the steam pressures involved in such a boiler are not as high as those in an operating steam locomotive boiler.




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- Graham