Hot Water posted:Big Jim posted:So, Steve, if your engine that has 380° water had a FWH and it was introducing that same 200° colder water, it wouldn't lose pressure? Maybe you need to use some common sense and have a long think about what you are saying instead of believing the myth that you so fervently want to hold on to! Now let's see, even at 380° - 200° equals 180°. I am not sticking any part of my body in that RELATIVELY COLD WATER!!!
You really do need to go dig out your ICS books and re-educate yourself.Since you have never actually worked on, nor with, a steam locomotive, there is obviously no sense in discussing boiler pressures and injectors with you any more.
Again Hot Water, we discussed the Worthingtons a number of years ago.
I don't know who that "discussion" was with.
They were designed as I said.
Nope, they were NOT "designed" to limit there usage, as that would surely have been an ICC violation, since the law requires two methods of putting water into the boiler at any/all times. The PRR did specify a limiting valve on the throttle so that the Worthington system could NOT be operated unless the throttle was open. That "idea" didn't last long and was quickly removed.
Now, what people have done to modify them since way back when is out of our control. I would think it was designed as a safety issue so as not to allow the hot boiler to accidentally fill with actual COLD water.
Again, you will have to come up with supportive facts for such a statement. I know for a fact that neither the SP nor the UP EVER modified their Worthington Type S and/or SA Feedwater systems, i.e. if one is stupid enough to operate the Worthington system when the throttle is cold,,,,,,,,,well then that person deserves what he gets!
