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Originally Posted by Lancpudn
LOL I should really do the tutorial courses of the engines before I'm let loose on the paying public.   |
Before I went through the BR driver training, when I was still a 2nd man, I received training as a steam fireman and fired several main line steam excursions. With the real thing, if the water in the boiler is allowed to drop too low and expose the top of the firebox a fuseable plug (bolt with a low melting point core) would melt and a jet of steam would blast into the firebox. If that happened the only thing that could be done was to stop and drop the fire before the loco turned into a bomb! Trying to top the boiler up was pointless as the fuseable plug had "gone".