How A Locomotive Works - Cutaway Steam Locomotive

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This is a Cutaway Steam Locomotive that is located inside the museum at Steamtown NHS. This cutaway engine illustrates how a steam locomotive operates and what the inner workings look like. enjoy.
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[riverwildcat]

Very well done. There's nothing like an iron horse. They seem alive when their steam is up.

[jackblack]

It's amazing how they were capable of designing and building such things with the kind of tools they had in those days.

[darioinfini]

Gorgeous. I have never seen the cut open view of that steam valve at the piston; only in diagrams. It literally looks like the diagram. Amazing machinery.

[david]

Wow, it looks to have taken as much time to perform that cut away as it did to build the locomotive from the ground up!! Excellent job to everyone involved, and thanks for the post!

[pattyroosa]

Engine, engine number 8....I learned something today. 🚂

[st.charlesstreet]

What a beautiful engine and what a great price of engineering 😮

[CBeard]

This helped me to understand a great deal. Whoever did that did a great job!

[silasfatchett]

In the National Railway Museum in York in the UK, there is a cut-away steam loco whose wheels are turning slowly so you can see the motion working. It's a Bulleid Merchant Navy Class express passenger loco of which there are preserved examples hauling enthusiast tours on the main line.

[denisehweertman]

l love to see how the engine looked. I felted like i was there great job.

[JPVideos]

Take a unique look at a steam locomotive

[steamandsmoke]

While yes she's now a very useful teaching tool, making a mock-up that was put together in the same fashion, but with the added benefit of an electric motor to turn the wheels and show how the valve gear operates would have been just as effective if not more, and a very nice little engine would still be intact. The main reason they chose to do that to her was because internally her boiler is completely shot to pieces, but the boiler can be replaced (along with the throttle valve since they sectioned that as well :P, would have been nice to re-use that in the new boiler). In fact, if one really wanted to, she could be restored to run again even now. Aside from a new Boiler (and a new Form 4 started for it), a new valve chest, cylinder block, and valve would need to be cast and machined and mated up to the other half of the boiler saddle and the fireman's side cylinder, but that's not impossible. The smokebox can be patched up if not replaced, the one branch pipe can be re cast as well as the smokestack, the cab and tender can be patched up, the one injector as well as the plumbing all replaced. From that point, it just becomes a thorough inspection. Replacing or repairing all worn out components and then putting her back together. Will it happen? Very very unlikely but compared to what it would cost to restore a much bigger engine that's been sitting outside for decades, missing many parts, and loaded with asbestos it would still be fairly reasonable cost wise.

[mrsqthh]

Thanks, maybe longer shots on a tripod next time?

[janetplanet]

I like how when you enter that room its all like oh cool its a steam engine and you look at it and its all pretty and then you go to the other side and its like cool!! you don't even expect it its a surprise!

[Tarzanaxx]

Very good, thank you. All the mysteries are revealed.

[crystalkauffman]

This cut away engine is in Steamtown national Historic Site in Scanton, PA

[captainelliot]

It looks like a mini nuclear reactor 😂

[rctrucksandmachinery]

Don't blink.. you'll miss it.

[GhostoftheMilwaukeeRoad]

Very interesting. That's a good idea

[H.pylori]

This is a good video. I always wanted to see how the fire tubes were set up. Would it be OK to use a portion of your video for my class video?

[mikerusso]

i'm not really a train guy but that train looked beautiful so shiny xo they ran on coal and a guy would shovel coal is that how it worked?