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This is an interesting YouTube on researching the engineering of a steam locomotive:

The original ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code for steam locomotives was ASME section III. As the manufacture of steamers disappeared, Admiral Hyman Rickover kidnapped the section III section title to use for the (then) new-fangled civil nuclear industry; copying across chunks of the military...

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Hi Bosworth Welcome. Nearby in Derby and about to retire for second time from steam-fluid valve design. I have a clapped out Senior horizonal mill with a (slow) vertical attachment and am currently proposing an investment in a faster small imported vertical to the Director of Finance (she who...

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JE Gordon in 'Structures' has a couple of pages on riveted joints where he quotes Rudyard Kipling's' story 'the Ship That Found Itself' which is about the movement in structures undergoing ocean wave forces. He says that it is a shame steel riveting has gone out of fashion due to its extra cost...

ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code - Wikipedia Some notes on the demise of ASME III which used to be the locomotive boiler code until 1963 it was repurposed as the Code for Nuclear power components. Describes loco boiler stay bolt issues...

see also Advice on a boiler burner