Heating house
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The department in the steam locomotive repair shop is named as the heating house , where the steam locomotive is heated up again after assembly during the main repairs and the final inspection and is made roadworthy.
In the heating house, all work is also carried out that is necessary to test the steam locomotive for trouble-free and optimal operation, such as equipping the locomotives with the indexing devices, assembling the slides and other devices, assembling and testing them only on the steam locomotive can be carried out. The heating house is the station of the generally repaired steam locomotive until it is handed over to the customer.
The atmosphere in a heating house can be imagined as in the photo shown; diffuse light, the typical steam locomotive smell of steam and hot oil, which occurs when the steam engine is heated up and leak tests. Large repair shops have the option of supplying generally repaired locomotives with live steam from a donor locomotive, which significantly shortens the heating-up process. A locomotive powered in this way takes about eight to ten hours for the heating-up process.
The work that is still required after the locomotives have been heated up, such as setting the boiler safety valves or blowing out the valve housing, is, however, preferably carried out outdoors because of the noise pollution. This presupposes the structural conditions so that the locomotives can leave the heating house quickly and enter it again.
literature
- Rainer Scholze, Hans-Erhard Henningen: The city of Meiningen and its steam locomotive works . Verlag Resch, Meiningen 2012, ISBN 978-3-940295-33-0 .
Web links
- Recommissioning videos of various steam locomotives at EK-Verlag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rainer Scholze, Hans-Erhard Henningen: The city of Meiningen and its steam locomotive works . Verlag Resch, Meiningen 2012, ISBN 978-3-940295-33-0 , p. 214 .