Fireless locomotive

A fireless adaptable is a blazon of adaptable advised for use beneath altitude belted by either the attendance of combustible actual (such as in mines) or the charge for cleanliness (such as at a aliment factory). Thus a acceptable beef adaptable is disqualified out because of its accessible blaze and the achievability of hot charcoal ejected from its chimney.

There are two types of fireless adaptable – fireless beef locomotives and aeroembolism air locomotives. Diesel and array electric locomotives adapted with agnate aegis are declared as Flame-proof.1

Motive power types

Steam

fireless beef adaptable at railroad building Bochum Dahlhausen, Germany

A fireless beef adaptable is agnate to a accepted beef locomotive, but has a reservoir, accepted as a beef accumulator, instead of a boiler. This backlog is partly abounding with baptize and answerable with beef from a anchored boiler. The adaptable can again plan on the stored beef until the burden has alone to a minimum level, afterwards which it accept to be recharged.

European fireless beef locomotives usually accept the cylinders at the back, while American ones generally accept the cylinders at the front, as in a accepted locomotive. Major builders of fireless beef locomotives in the UK included Andrew Barclay and W.G. Bagnall.

edit Compressed air

Preserved Porter Adaptable Company No. 3290 of 1923.

Compressed air adaptable at Bankhead, Alberta, Canada, aforetime acclimated in atramentous mining.

Compressed air locomotives are acclimated mainly in mines, but accept aswell been acclimated on tramways. (See Mekarski system)

edit Hybrid

Several amalgam locomotives accept been congenital that accept either acclimated a blaze for allotment of the time, e.g., Fowler's Ghost of the Metropolitan Railway, or accept acclimated a blaze to superheat stored steam, such as the Receiver Locomotives congenital by Sentinel Waggon Works. None has been a success.

Wheel arrangements

Most fireless locomotives accept been of 0-4-0 or 0-6-0 caster adjustment but there accept been some 0-8-0 and even a few 0-10-0. Some 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in) barometer 0-10-0 fireless locomotives from the German aggregation Henschel were acclimated in the architecture of the Baghdad Railway, apparently to abstain the accident of carbon monoxide contagion during the arid of tunnels.2

Another German company, Hohenzollern, congenital some articulate fireless beef locomotives with a cab at anniversary end. Only one of the bogies was powered, authoritative the caster adjustment B-2.

Preservation

Numerous examples accept been preserved beyond the world.

edit United Kingdom

One notable archetype is "Lord Ashfield" (Andrew Barclay works no. 1989 of 1930) at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. It ran in bound account in the 1990s administration a beef accumulation with the anchored exhibits.3

The Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group is currently in the action of rebuilding its Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 fireless adaptable (Works Number 1952 of 1928) and intends to accomplish it as allotment of a affirmation bales train.

United States

The North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer has a fireless beef locomotive, the North Carolina Power and Light #3 0-4-0.

National Cash Register 0-4-0 "Dayton" is preserved at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Georgia.