Steam generator

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    "[...] 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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"[...] during those ghastly winters of the late 1940's when the smallish steam generators of early diesel passenger units proved inadequate …[...]"