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Latest news:(5/19/08) Added compliance text next to useless Donate button. (5/10/08) Removed most explanation material, went to interesting topics format. (1/13/08) Split my steam stories from those steam stories given to me. (12/19/07) Added another story to my steam stories page. Added video links.
Volunteered for train crew at the Sumpter Valley Railway Photo Run, fired wood-burning Heisler 10/14/07. (Found stove-length firewood provided earlier is only used to heat the shop!) Went to Wolsztyn, Poland 6/22/07 to run locomotives, including hand firing with coal.
We have a wood-fired steam locomotive revival in Paraguay, with Paraguay Pictures. (Locomotives were taken out of retirement and are in use as wood-fired freight haulers.)
We still have wood- and bagasse-fired trains in Java:
We have Surviving North American Steam Locomotives (SteamLocomotive dot Com), and woodburner survivors: Northwest's Surviving Wood Burning Steam Locomotives.
We have steam history, preserved in photographs, books and on the internet, with tiny bits contributed in my steam stories page.
Chuck Turner firing the Heisler at the SVRy.
We have historical railroads such as the Sumpter Valley Railway, with its wood-burning Heisler, the Golden Spike National Historic Site, with its new reenactment locomotives, the Niles Canyon Railway and its Robert Dollar No. 3 (the last US woodburner made), the Durango & Silverton cold firing up on wood briquets, and the Mt. Washington Cog Railway converting a locomotive to vegetable oil biofuel.
Another writer can state the case more eloquently than I can. Here is the start to a translation of Olmo's Modern Steam Power
The original is in Spanish on Martyn Bane's website.
Here are some efficiency notes.
Thank all of you for looking and thank you for the valuable insights, questions and feedback. Feedback comments are some items resulting from your help.
My favorite websites:
Wes Barris' "steamlocomotive dot com" contains lists of surviving USA locomotives and technical info on locomotives.
Rob Dickinson's International Working Steam Locomotives 2007 contains lists, articles and links about steam locomotives doing real work in the world today. Other topics include stationary steam engines worldwide.
Martyn Bane's Steam and Travel Pages is the best place to start for Modern Steam news.
The Ultimate Steam Page is the best overview of Modern Steam.
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