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The Walschaerts valve gear on a steam locomotive (a PRR E6s).. The valve gear of a steam engine is the mechanism that operates the inlet and exhaust valves to admit steam into the cylinder and allow exhaust steam to escape, respectively, at the correct points in the cycle.
The usual locomotive valve gears such as Stephenson, Walschaerts, and Baker valve gear, can be used with either slide valves or piston valves. Where poppet valves are used, a different gear, such as Caprotti valve gear may be used, though standard gears as mentioned above were used as well, by Chapelon and others.
The central role of the valve gear arbors in operating a Cornish Engine also makes them an appropriate place to position other controls. These can include Governor valves to limit the rate of input steam flow, cut-off settings, lubrication arrangements and adjustments to modify the delay imposed by the cataract(s).
A snowplow clears snow from a road, as a winter storm hits the Midwest, in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., January 5, 2025, in this still image obtained from video.
Georgia's Carson Beck was injured on the first half's final play during the SEC Championship game. - Butch Dill/Getty Images
In a steam engine, cutoff is the point in the piston stroke at which the inlet valve is closed. On a steam locomotive , the cutoff is controlled by the reversing gear . The point at which the inlet valve closes and stops the entry of steam into the cylinder from the boiler plays a crucial role in the control of a steam engine.
Authorities have arrested the grandfather of a 1-year-old boy who was unaccounted for after a Dec. 8 crash that killed two of his family members and critically injured his mother.
European tube manufacturers agreed on the system, but in the UK, MOV (Marconi-Osram Valve), STC/Brimar and Mazda/Ediswan maintained their own systems. Most MOV tubes were cross-licensed copies of RCA types, with a British designation. For example, an MOV X63 valve was the same as an RCA 6A8 tube.