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harry wrote:
On Jul 24, 4:29*pm, The Real Doctor wrote:

The pressure in the condenser is set by the temperature at which you
can keep it. If you have a large sink at 10C available, the pressure
will be 0.015 bar or so. That's pretty low.

Ian

Condenser reject a lot of energy. There is no place to reject it to
on locmotives. (Always done at sea.)
I think there was an experiment in Siberia with air cooled condensing
steam locos. Only worked in Winter.

South African Railways had a large and successful class of air-cooled
condensing steam locomotives, and they worked in the desert not Siberia.

Nick
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