After about 1910, the Baker valve gear was the main competitor to Walschaerts valve gear for steam locomotives in the United States. Strictly speaking it was not a valve gear but a variable expansion mechanism adapted to the Walschaerts layout replacing the expansion link and sliding die block. The Baker arrangement used more pivot bearings or pin joints, but avoided the die slip inherent to the expansion link, with the aim of lessening wear and the need for service; it could also facilitate longer valve travel.
Bakervalvegear was the main competitor to Walschaerts valvegear for steam locomotives in the United States. Strictly speaking it was not a valve gear...
The valvegear 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...
The Walschaerts valvegear is a type of valvegear used to regulate the flow of steam to the pistons in steam locomotives, invented by Belgian railway...
The Stephenson valvegear or Stephenson link or shifting link is a simple design of valvegear that was widely used throughout the world for various kinds...
valvegear was briefly popular on steam locomotives in the United States. It combines elements of the Walschaerts and Baker patterns. Southern valve gear...
Originally built with Bakervalvegear and alligator crossheads, the Ps-4s were eventually re-equipped with Walschaerts valvegear and multiple-bearing...
The Hackworth valvegear is a design of valvegear used to regulate the flow of steam to the pistons in steam engines. It is a radial gear, with an actuating...
that company developed the Bagnall–Price valvegear which was primarily based on Walschaerts valvegear. Baker identifies one common feature retained from...
rest of their class due to being fitted with the Bakervalvegear instead of the Walschaerts valvegear fitted to all other members, and were oil burners...
The Holcroft valvegear was a type of conjugated valvegear designed and patented by Harold Holcroft and used on three-cylinder steam locomotives of the...
so forth. They carried Bakervalvegear, which the C&O preferred to the simpler and much more widely used Walschaerts valvegear. It spent its nine-year...
water heaters were eliminated, as were Bakervalvegear and limited cut-off. But the "proliferation of valves and gauges on the backhead showed that running...
without change. As a result, they were equipped with Bakervalvegear instead of Walschaerts valvegear which was more common on the PRR. Additionally, they...
Conditioner instead of the Coffin feedwater heater. Valvegear was of the low-maintenance Baker type, with (of course) power reverse. A front-end throttle...
Gab valvegear was an early form of valvegear used on steam engines. Its simplest form allowed an engine to be stopped and started. A double form, mostly...
1938, the locomotive was refitted with Walschaert valvegear, replacing its original Bakervalvegear. In 1947, it was converted to burn oil and stayed...
become heavily rebuilt. No. 490's original Bakervalvegear was replaced with Franklyn type A poppet valvegear, an extra trailing axle was added beneath...
and 348 cc twin-cylinder engines, some of which had desmodromic valvegear, with the valve being closed by a separate camshaft. The Mercedes-Benz W196 Formula...
of water. Sometime during the 1930s, No. 475 was re-equipped with Bakervalvegear and a United States Railroad Administration (URSA) type tender, which...
names; Thomas Nelson, Jr and James Monroe. This batch was built with Bakervalvegear and aside from the reverse domes, there were no major physical differences...
published in book form, English Mechanics 1935 P.V. Baker, 0-6-0T tank engine. Piston Valve, Bakervalvegear, Model Engineer, 1945 Rainhill, 0-2-2 tender engine...
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