steam generator

English

Noun

steam generator (plural steam generators)

  1. (rail transport) 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.
    • 1959, "Steam's Finest Hour" edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co.
      ... during those ghastly winters of the late 1940's when the smallish steam generators of early diesel passenger units proved inadequate …
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