Firebox
Literally a box containing the fire. It is surrounded by water on the top and all sides. The bottom is a grate with an ash pan below that.
Firebox Crown ...
Firebox
The section of a steam locomotive boiler in which fuel is burned.
Fireman ...
Firebox
The part of the locomotive in which the actual fire was located. On a typical British steam engine the firebox was the (often square cross-section, on Belpaire boilers) thing at the end of the boiler, before the cab starts.
Firebox
The combustion chamber on a steam locomotive for generating heat which is used to convert water into steam in the engine's boiler.
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WET MULE IN THE FIREBOX"Bad job of firing a locomotive
WHALE BELLY"Steel car, or type of coal car with drop bottom. Also called sow belly ...
Bakehead Fireman (because his head was near the door of firebox when shoveling coal) Ball (of a Rail) The head of the rail Balloon Track Railroad track in the shape of a teardrop used to reverse the direction of a train.
Bakehead Fireman (because his head was near the door of firebox when shoveling coal) Beans, ...
Shaker Bar A tool carried in steam locomotive cabs that would be placed on the grate levers mounted in the cab deck to allow the fireman to shake the grates in the firebox, dumping ashes into the ash pan below the firebox.
Belpaire Firebox - Square topped fireboxes typical of a Pennsylvania and Great Northern Locomotives.
Belt Line - A connecting railroad between two or more railroads, so-called because it encircles a city like a belt.
Fairlie: A type of articulated locomotive, typically (but not exclusively) with two boilers and connected fireboxes in a central cab.
Fallen flag (US): A railroad which is defunct, having either merged or discontinued operations.
Aside from being hard work, shoveling the coal requires that you get the coal correctly distributed in the firebox. This requires learning how to look at the fire, which we had not mastered by the end of the week.
In a steam locomotive firebox, a funnel-shaped steel fabrication that connects the bottom of the throat sheet and the crown sheet. Water flows upward through the syphon, connecting the coolest and hottest parts of the locomotive boiler.
As locomotives became heavier and fireboxes got larger, another wheel was added to the rear. It helped support the added weight in the cab area, and to guide the locomotive when it went backwards.
We are happy with our pollution free diesel locomotives and soot steamers with cold fireboxes. If you model in N, TT or HO let's consider a switchstand that isn't. This device is cheap, simple and also quite useful.
The "old girl" (she was purchased in 1986 for 45 bucks, money went further those days) was never touched as Pennsy H9's with Belparie fireboxes are not found on the Imperial Valley Railroad. Most rolling stock is representative of GN and NP.
A type of steam locomotive with the cab astride the boiler. The Camelback was a solution to the problem of forward visibility past the wide firebox required for burning anthracite.
Can motor
A round-cross section motor with a circular field magnet.
Used when the regulator is shut and when there is no exhaust steam to create the draft. Without a draft, blow-backs into the cab are likely whenever the firebox doors are opened. This situation most likely would occur when entering a tunnel.
 See also: Locomotive, Track, Engine, Boiler, Train
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