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.