The small, round windows on cabine's front is vital for firemen to see the chimney
The smoke tells you a lot about your fire
Light grey is optimum fire, but right before start you need thicker bed of charcoal, hence black smoke
Time for departure!
Regulator opens - steam goes to cylinders
Lever to active cylinders
We are moving! Turn up volume
Heading out from station, driver wished to gain as much speed as possible before climbing begines
Look at chimney - already more grey smoke. Good firing.
More cylinder filling
Tunnel ahead!
Here you must not fire, since you don't want to kill you passengers in the cars with black smoke
Sparks from chimney well visible in darkness
Here it is very uphill
And a short tunnel
Now fire is really alive! And hungry. The H3 No.10 has very great appetite and is easy to fire
We're reaching allowed top speed of 80 km/h
Driver decrease cylinder filling
And thereby the power output and steam consumption
Locomotive itself is allowed 90 km/h
Tales make certain the locomotive is good for 120 km/h
Still uphill though
Steam operated injector
Fireman listen for correct sound
to make sure water flows into boiler
When you take in water during running
you must fire more
otherwise you get pressure drop
More water
Right in center of picture you see glasses for water level in boiler
The red spike marks the minimum level of water
Smoke from chimney tells you if bed of charcoal is too thick
or if you have holes in it
This is how smoke could look like just after adding some shovels of charcoal
Here another couple of shovels
Smoke already thinning out
Regulator close. Lever in position for rolling
start artificial drag in chimney
You see water level? Approx. in middel of min and top
Maximum pressure in boiler, 12 bars
We are closing in on station of Ryr
Activate cylinders again
Open regulator
Hear the sound from cylinders at work!
Now rolling again
You see smoke is pouring instead of being thrown up
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Short stop here in station of Ryr.
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