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Barry Munro

March 19, 2006 11:02PM

I've never read a discussion, or have seen a topic, relating to steam temperature at higher altitudes. If you're running a steam locomotive at the higher altitudes, such as encountered on some US NG routes and SA mountain routes, I suppose the heat of the steam must be less than that at sea level to lower altitudes.
I did a quick and dirty google, and found this link to a cooking site, but it mentions problems relating to the above, as applied to cooking at altitude in pressure vessels.
The same theory must apply to locomotive boilers.

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Producing steam at altitude.	Barry Munro	March 19, 2006 11:02PM
Re: Producing steam at altitude.	Barry Munro	March 19, 2006 11:03PM
Re: Producing steam at altitude.	Jim B.	March 20, 2006 12:20AM
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Re: Producing steam at altitude.	Todd Hackett	March 20, 2006 07:35PM
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Re: Producing steam at altitude.	Les Clark	March 22, 2006 05:49PM
Re: Producing steam at altitude.	Michael Allen	March 21, 2006 09:13PM
Re: Producing steam at altitude.	Don Richter	March 22, 2006 08:08AM
Re: Producing steam at altitude.	Trevor Hartford	March 22, 2006 10:04AM
Re: Producing steam at altitude.	J.B.Bane	March 22, 2006 02:17PM
Re: Producing steam at altitude.	Trevor Hartford	March 22, 2006 03:11PM
Steam driven man	Barry Munro	March 22, 2006 02:29AM

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