Interesting. I never heard of condensing tenders. Makes perfect sense.
Chuck Norcutt
Dawid Loubser wrote:
>
>
> One of the reasons why steam lasted so long in South Africa is because
> coal has always been vastly cheaper than oil here, and even though
> we are an extremely arid country, the main-line steam engines used
> condensing tenders to recycle a large portion of the steam expelled
from the
> cylinders.
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