Interestingly, steam locomotives are similar all over the world. This is easy to explain, as countries are always watching each other. Who knows, if the countries had been isolated, how would the problem of public transport have been solved in some countries? Some would have solved it differently, others not at all. Some might have solved it better. But it’s more convenient to imitate someone than to figure something out. 😁😁😁

@@zongihangi11 Most ‘modern’ steam locomotives had two outside cylinders, outside walshaerts valve gear and had superheated boilers (with varying firebox designs according to the coal available and the traffic they hauled). However(!) even these varied a lot in how they looked: British locos tended to be tidy and … well.. British-looking. Latter day French locos were highly sophisticated, had a lot of theory incorporated into them and persisted with compounding. Australian locos looked like hybrids of American and British locomotives. Hungarian and Czech locos had family resemblances which were very far from the British look: very handsome but more spidery. Steam may have a future yet in the form of water tube boilers burning biomass as a guy in New Zealand is trying as ‘sustainable steam’. My money would be on fluidised bed fireboxes burning pellets. But yes fancy Steam-Electric Turbines like the magnificent and brave ‘Jawn Henry’ which came late in the day, were a failure. JH whined rather than chuffed 🥴

Rádo se stalo. Je to úžasný stroj, velký dík lidem co se o takové mašiny starají.

@@VladDublin Taka slechticka że pornole na niej kręcą :-)(