steam generator

noun

A type of boiler fitted in a diesel locomotive or another rail vehicle, which provided steam heating in steam-heated passenger trains that had previously been hauled by steam locomotives.

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Meanings

nounsteam generator (plural steam generators)

plural steam generators

  1. rail transportA type of boiler fitted in a diesel locomotive or another rail vehicle, which provided steam heating in steam-heated passenger trains that had previously been hauled by steam locomotives.

    [...] during those ghastly winters of the late 1940's when the smallish steam generators of early diesel passenger units proved inadequate …[...]

    1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 8

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
steam boiler
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Chicago

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