The Steam Savant

My Other Pages:

• Youtube Channel

• Locomotive Wiki Profile

Steam Vehicle Designers and Inventors:

• Assistants of Sir Nigel Gresley
• Bert Spencer
• Charles Heisler
• Harold Holcroft
• Otto Jabelmann
• Abner Doble
• Curly Lawrence a pioneer of miniatures

Documentation About the Mechanics, Characteristics, and Maintenance of Steam Engines and Boilers:

• Conjugated Valve Gear
• Bulleid Pacific Valve Gear
• Holcroft's Formula for Designing Offset Cylinders
• Throttle Lock
• Clearance Crank
• Why Anthracite and Bituminous Coals Should not be Mixed in a Firebox (An Anecdotal Experience)
• The Esoteric Nature of Southern Valve Gear
• Lempor Exhaust (The Best Steam Exhaust)
• Fusible Plug
• An Archived Article on Porta Boiler Treatment "Porta Treatment Internal Boiler Water Treatment for the 21st Century"
• Translated Norwegian Stationary Boiler Manual
• "The Modern 3 Cylinder Locomotive" by Harold Holcroft
• Graph comparing the powerflow of 2 and 3 cylinder locomotives
• Exclusively Crosshead Driven Walschaerts Gear
• A Brief History of the Counter-Pressure Brake for Steam Locomotives (Paywalled)
• Archive of general arrangement diagrams (America, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Japan, etc.)

Aesthetics

• Electro-Transcriptions by Paul Glover (The Best Synthesized Classical Collection in the World) (The perfect music to represent steam enthusiasm and engineering in general)
• Jonathan Clay an Amazing Steam Locomotive Artist (Premium Commissions)
• Pax Victori a Young Pixel and Pencil Drawn Steam Locomotive Artist (Budget Commissions)
• My Proposed Locomotive Names
• Black Hills Design (laser engraved locomotive builders, name, number, etc. plates)

Technology Hunting Blogs

• Four-Cylinder Holcroft Conjugated Gear (Ended 7/30/2022)
• Henschel und Sohn's Vertical Conjugated Gear (Ended 9/30/2022)
• Tugboat Annie (Ended 11/08/2022)

Experimental, Obscure, Unbuilt, & Fantasy Locomotives:

• ACE 3000 Locomotive Full Patent Application
• ACE 3000 Original Engineering Drawings
• ACE 1-TR BR Class 4 Mogul [Commission for Pax Victori]
• Compound V4 Heisler
• Austrian Federal Railway (ÖBB) 80 series with heat exchanger
• The Only Known Triple Expansion Loco
• Tugboat Annie (The only loco with holcroft's 4 cylinder conjugated gear)
• Bulleid Pacific Fitted with Holcroft-Anderson Recompression Heat Recovery System
• Norfolk and Western M2 Automatic (Experimental Automated Firing System) (N&W Historical Society Archive)
• Baldwin 60,000
• Brazilian Baldwin 3 Cylinder
• Nilgiri Mountain Railway X class
• Great Northern Railway (Ireland) "V" CLASS 4-4-0 COMPOUND, No.85 "MERLIN"
• ASTT's Revolution
• Engineering Drawings for Bulleid's Leader are buried in the British National Railway Museum Archives

Archived Books:

• The Locomotive Up to Date by McShane, Chas. (Charles) (1899)
• The Walschaert Locomotive Valve Gear by Wood, William Wallace (1907)
• Locomotive Feedwater Heating Equipments

Translation Dictionaries:

Includes foreign equivalents of English steam locomotive technical terms and their literal translations:

• German
• Norwegian
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Japanese

Other Sites Cataloging Technical, Historical, and Artistic Steam Documentation:

• Bulleid Locos dot org
• Chris Eden Green Media
• Coalition for Sustainable Rail
• Discover Live Steam
• Don Ashton's Website
• Douglas-Self Experimental Loco Webpage
• Geared Steam Locomotive Works
• International Brotherhood of Live Steamers
• John Baguley's Site
• LNER Encyclopedia
• Locomotive Wiki
• New Built Steam
• Norfolk and Western Historical Society
• Mackwell Locomotive Company
• Martyn Bane's Old Steam Website
• Richard Leonard's Rail Archive
• Shay Locomotive dot com
• Steam Locomotive dot com
• The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust
• The Advanced Steam Traction Trust
• The Gresley Society
• The Steam Channel
• The Ultimate Steam Page
• C&O 614 dot com
• American Freedom Train
• New York Central System Historical Society
• Model Engineer Magazine
• Japanese Railway Society

Affiliated Organizations:

• Sacramento Valley Live Steamers Railroad Museum (SVLSRRM)
• Placerville & Sacramento Valley Railroad (PSVRR)
• The Advanced Steam Traction Trust

Steam Technology Suppliers:

Sellers of miniature locomotive components and kits

• Allen Models
• Eccentric Engineer
• Railroad Supply Company
• Black Hills Design (lasered engraved locomotive builders, name, number, etc. plates)

Recommended Books:

• The Red Devil
• Locomotive Adventure Vol. 1
• Southern Pacific Ten-Coupled Locomotives
• Design Procedures for Walschaerts' and Stephenson's Valve Gears

Scholars:

• O. Winston Link (Famous Locomotive Photographer) (I have a personal connection to him)

Simulators & Specialized Computer Aided Design Tools:

• Charles Dockstader's Valve Gear Simulators
• Valve Gear Constructor (German program with an English translation)
• Charles Dockstader's Zeuner Diagram Generator

General Purpose Mechanical Documenation:

• 507 Movements Demo Site (A large number of these movements have animations to accompany them)
• Equations for reciprocating piston motion generated by a radial pin and an arcing connecting rod (Wikipedia)
• Interactive radial to reciprocating motion translator model with modifiable variables (Desmos)

Deprecating Delusions:

Disclaimer:

I do not condone harassing people who make the mistakes I am documenting. I am trying to identify and disprove myths in the train enthusiast space to help improve the accuracy of information within it.

• O. Winston Link did not save N&W 611
• Coal fired steam locomotives are not outright banned in California
• Union Pacific 9000 does not have a clearance crank