>>717052560
/v/ has been the de facto blue random board since at least 2016. Probably further back too, but it was less busy before the influx of gamergate, election tourists, phoneposters, and fappening gooners. /b/ is swamped with porn these days, so people just hang out on /v/. I used to love stuff like geography threads on /b/ back in the day.
>>717052310
The "smoke" is just steam, nothing more. You can smell the coal through it, but you kinda get used to the smell. Those little boilers burn extremely efficiently.
>>717052184 (OP)
Imagine a timeline where this became the favoured transport method in cities and dozens of people would take a seat behind the miniature train driver as the raised rails snaked throughout every city, running around the clock and with zero cars around.
>>717053285
think like a usual piston engine but instead of burning gas inside the cylinder, high-pressure steam is pre-boiled using the firebox then expanded into the cylinders.
>>717052984
It does still contain coal particles, and smaller/simpler engines burn much less efficiently. You really don't want to breathe that shit.
Apart from that, this looks like a lot of fun. I wonder if he built it himself.
>>717053285
when you boil water, it expands. put it in a container and it increases pressure in the container. use the pressure to push a piston connected to whatever needs to turn.
>>717053285
Everything has already been invented. Modern technology is just old stuff with bits remixed. So a steam engine just has a car engine inside it and someone later thought "Hold on, we can take this out and put it in a horseless carriage". Modern trains are now moved by horses underneath them.
