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An oil burner engine is a

steam engine A steam engine is a heat engine that performs Work (physics), mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a Cylinder (locomotive), cyl ...

that uses

oil An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils). Oils are usually flammable and surface active. Most oils are unsaturate ...

as its fuel. The term is usually applied to a

locomotive A locomotive is a rail transport, rail vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. Traditionally, locomotives pulled trains from the front. However, Push–pull train, push–pull operation has become common, and in the pursuit for ...

ship A ship is a large watercraft, vessel that travels the world's oceans and other Waterway, navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing. Ships are generally disti ...

engine that burns oil to heat water, to produce the steam which drives the

piston A piston is a component of reciprocating engines, reciprocating pumps, gas compressors, hydraulic cylinders and pneumatic cylinders, among other similar mechanisms. It is the moving component that is contained by a cylinder (engine), cylinder a ...

s, or

turbine A turbine ( or ) (from the Greek , ''tyrbē'', or Latin ''turbo'', meaning vortex) is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. The work produced can be used for generating electrical ...

s, from which the power is derived. This is mechanically very different from

diesel engine The diesel engine, named after the German engineer Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which Combustion, ignition of diesel fuel is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to Mechanics, mechanical Compr ...

s, which use

internal combustion An internal combustion engine (ICE or IC engine) is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer (usually air) in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit. In an internal comb ...

, although they are sometimes

colloquially Colloquialism (also called ''colloquial language'', ''colloquial speech'', ''everyday language'', or ''general parlance'') is the linguistic style used for casual and informal communication. It is the most common form of speech in conversation am ...

referred to as oil burners.

History

A variety of experimental oil powered steam boilers were patented in the 1860s. Most of the early patents used steam to spray atomized oil into the steam boilers furnace. Attempts to burn oil from a free surface were unsuccessful due to the inherently low rates of combustion from the available surface area. On 21 April 1868, the

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''Henrietta'' made a voyage down the

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dry steam Superheated steam is steam at a temperature higher than its vaporization point at the absolute pressure where the temperature is measured. Superheated steam can therefore cool (lose internal energy) by some amount, resulting in a lowering of its ...

to spray oil into a furnace lined with fireproof bricks. Prior to the ''Henrietta''’s oil burner conversion, George Miller & Co was recorded as having used oil to power their works in

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for a “considerable time”. During the late 19th century numerous burner designs were patented using combinations of steam, compressed air and injection pumps to spray oil into boiler furnaces. Most of the early oil burner designs were commercial failures due to the high cost of oil (relative to coal) rather than any technical issues with the burners themselves. During the early 20th century, marine and large oil burning steam engines generally used

electric motor An electric motor is a machine that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. Most electric motors operate through the interaction between the motor's magnetic field and electric current in a electromagnetic coil, wire winding to gene ...

or steam driven injection pumps. Oil would be drawn from a storage tank through suction strainers and across viscosity-reducing oil heaters. The oil would then be pumped through discharge strainers before entering the burners as a whirling mist. Combustion air was introduced through special furnace-fronts, which were fitted with dampers to regulate the supply. Smaller land-based oil burning steam engines typically used steam jets fed from the main boiler to blast atomized oil into the burner nozzles.

Steam ships

In the 1870s,

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steamships A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels. The first steamships ...

began using

mazut Mazut () is a low-quality heavy fuel oil, used in power plants and similar applications in Iran and some countries of the former Soviet Union. In the West, through fluid catalytic cracking, mazut is distilled into diesel and other light distilla ...

, a residual

fuel oil Fuel oil is any of various fractions obtained from the distillation of petroleum (crude oil). Such oils include distillates (the lighter fractions) and residues (the heavier fractions). Fuel oils include heavy fuel oil (bunker fuel), marine f ...

which at that time was produced as a waste stream by the many

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located in the

Absheron peninsula The Absheron Peninsula () is a peninsula in Azerbaijan. It is the location of Baku, the most populous city of the country, and the Baku Metropolitan Area, with its satellite cities Sumqayit and Khyrdalan. It extends eastward into the Caspian S ...

. During the late 19th century Mazut remained cheap and plentiful in the Caspian region. In 1870, either the ''SS Iran'' or ''SS Constantine'' (depending on source) became the first ship to convert to burning fuel oil, both were Caspian based merchant steamships. During the 1870s, the

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converted the ships of the Caspian fleet to oil burners starting with the ''Khivenets'' in 1874. In 1894, the

oil tanker An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk cargo, bulk transport of petroleum, oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers: crude tankers and product tankers. Crude tankers move large quant ...

''SS Baku Standard'' became the first oil burning vessel to cross the

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. In 1903, the

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r '' SS Kensington'' became the first passenger liner to make the Atlantic crossing with boilers fired by fuel oil. Fuel oil has a higher energy density than coal and oil powered ships did not need to employ stokers however coal remained the dominant power source for marine boilers throughout the 19th century primarily due to the relatively high cost of fuel oil. Oil was used in marine boilers to a greater extent during the early 20th century. By 1939, about half the world’s ships burned fuel oil, of these about half had steam engines and the other half used diesel engines.

Steam locomotives

Oil burners designed by Thomas Urquhart were fitted to the locomotives of the

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railway in southern

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. Thomas Urquhart, who was employed as a Locomotive Superintendent by the Gryazi-Tsaritsyn Railway Company, began his experiments in 1874. By 1885 all the locomotives of the Gryazi-Tsaritsyn Railway had been converted to run on fuel oil. In

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, an early pioneer of oil burning railway locomotives was James Holden, of the

Great Eastern Railway The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia. The company was grouped into the London and North Eastern R ...

. In James Holden's system, steam was raised by burning coal before the oil fuel was turned on. Holden's first oil burning locomotive ''Petrolea,'' was a class T19

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. Built in 1893, ''Petrolea'' burned waste oil that the railway had previously been discharging into the

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. Due to the relatively low cost of coal, oil was rarely used on Britain's stream trains and in most cases only where there was a shortage of coal. In the

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, the first oil burning steam locomotive was in service on the

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railroad by 1900. By 1915 there were 4,259 oil burning steam locomotives in the United States, which represented 6.5% of all the locomotives then in service. Most oil burners were operated in areas west of the

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where oil was abundant. American usage of oil burning steam locomotives peaked in 1945 when they were responsible for around 20% of all the fuel consumed (measured by energy content) during

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operations. After WW2, both oil and coal burning steam locomotives were replaced by more efficient diesel engines and had been almost entirely phased out of service by 1960.

Notable early oil-fired steamships

Passenger liners

* SS ''Kensington'' * NMS ''Regele Carol I'' (one oil fired + one coal fired boiler) * SS ''Tenyo Maru'' * SS ''George Washington''

Warships

* ''Re Umberto''-class - Italian

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equipped to burn a mix of coal and oil * ''Rostislav'' - Russian

battleship A battleship is a large, heavily naval armour, armored warship with a main battery consisting of large naval gun, guns, designed to serve as a capital ship. From their advent in the late 1880s, battleships were among the largest and most form ...

* HMS ''Spiteful'' - British Royal Navy

destroyer In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats. They were conceived i ...

* ''Paulding''-class destroyers - US Navy

Notable oil-fired steam locomotives

General

* Most

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locomotives * Some Fairlie locomotives * Some steam locomotives used on

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s *

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locomotives

Australia

* NSWGR D55 Class * NSWGR D59 Class * VR J Class * VR R Class * WAGR U Class * WAGR Pr Class

India

Darjeeling Himalayan Railway The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the DHR or the Toy Train, is a narrow-gauge, gauge railway that runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal. Built between 1879 and 1881, it is about long. It c ...

Nilgiri Mountain Railway The Nilgiri Mountain Railway (NMR), colloquially called the "Toy Train" by locals, is a railway in Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, India, built by the British in 1908. The railway is operated by the Southern Railway and is the only rack railwa ...

Great Britain

* GER Class T19 *

GER Class P43 The GER Class P43 was a class of ten 4-2-2 steam tender locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. They were the last 'singles' built for the Great Eastern, and the last in service. History Constructed with oil-burning ...

WD Austerity 2-10-0 The War Department (United Kingdom), War Department (WD) "Austerity" 2-10-0 is a type of heavy freight steam locomotive that was introduced during the Second World War in 1943. Background The Austerity 2-10-0 was based on the WD Austerity 2-8- ...

(3672 converted in preservation). * GWR oil burning steam locomotives ( 4965 Rood Ashton Hall to be converted during overhaul in preservation).4965 Confirmed as getting oil conversion ''Steam Railway'' issue 555 March 2024 page 22

New Zealand

* NZR JA class (North British-built locomotives only) *

NZR JB class The NZR J class was a class of forty 4-8-2 steam locomotives operated by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR). Although designed to work on the lighter secondary lines, the class was frequently used on mainline express passenger trains as w ...

NZR K class (1932) The NZR K class of 1932 was a class of mixed traffic 4-8-4 steam locomotives built by the New Zealand Railways Department (NZR) that operated on New Zealand's railway network. The locomotives were developed following the failure of the G class Ga ...

- converted from coal 1947-53 * NZR KA class - converted from coal 1947-53

North America

('*' symbol indicates locomotive was converted or is being converted from coal-burning to oil-burning in either revenue service or excursion service) * Sierra Railway 3 - Part of Railtown 1897 State Historic Park ( Jamestown, CA) * Sierra Railway 28 - Part of Railtown 1897 State Historic Park ( Jamestown, CA) * McCloud Railway 25 -

Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad The Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad is a heritage railway, heritage railroad, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, operating in Oregon (U.S. state), Oregon, US, primarily between Garibaldi, Oregon, Garibaldi and Rockaway, Oregon, Rockaway Beach, w ...

( Garibaldi, OR) * Polson Logging Co. 2 - Albany & Eastern Railroad ( Albany, OR) * California Western 45 -

California Western Railroad The California Western Railroad , AKA Mendocino Railway, popularly called the Skunk Train, is a rail freight and heritage railway, heritage railroad transport railway in Mendocino County, California, United States, running from the railroad's h ...

( Fort Bragg, CA) * US Army Transportation Corps 1702* -

Great Smoky Mountains Railroad The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad is a heritage railway, heritage and rail freight transport, freight railroad based in Bryson City, North Carolina, United States. Originally formed in 1988, it is currently owned and operated by ''American He ...

( Bryson City, NC) *

Southern Railway 722 Southern Railway 722 is a Ks-1 class 2-8-0 " Consolidation" type steam locomotive built in September 1904 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works to run on the Murphy Branch, where it hauled freight trains between Asheville and Murphy, North Carolina for ...

* -

( Bryson City, NC) *

Union Pacific 844 Union Pacific 844 is a class " FEF-3" 4-8-4 " Northern" type steam locomotive owned and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad for its heritage fleet. Built in December 1944 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York, No. 8 ...

* - UP Heritage Fleet (

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) *

Union Pacific 4014 Union Pacific 4014 is a preserved 4884-1 class 4-8-8-4 "Union Pacific Big Boy, Big Boy" type steam locomotive owned and operated by the Union Pacific (UP) as part of Union Pacific Heritage Fleet, its heritage fleet. Built in November 1941 by Am ...

* - UP Heritage Fleet (

) *

Union Pacific 3985 Union Pacific 3985 is a four-cylinder Articulated locomotive, articulated 4-6-6-4 "Union Pacific Challenger, Challenger"-type steam locomotive built in July 1943 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) of Schenectady, New York, for the Union P ...

* - Railroading Heritage of Midwest America ( Silvis, IL) * Union Pacific 5511 - Railroading Heritage of Midwest America ( Silvis, IL) * Union Pacific 737* - Double-T Agricultural Museum ( Stevinson, CA) * White Pass & Yukon Route 73 -

White Pass & Yukon Route The White Pass and Yukon Route (WP&Y, WP&YR) is a Canadian and U.S. Class III narrow-gauge railroad linking the port of Skagway, Alaska, with Whitehorse, Yukon, Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon. An isolated system, it has no direct connection ...

( Skagway, AK) * Alaska Railroad 557* - Engine 557 Restoration Company (

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) * Santa Fe 5000 -

Amarillo, TX Amarillo ( ; Spanish for "yellow") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Potter County, though most of the southern half of the city extends into Randall County. It is the 16th-most populous city in Texas and the most po ...

* Santa Fe 3759* - Locomotive Park (

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) *

Santa Fe 3751 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 3751 is a preserved class "3751" 4-8-4 " Heavy Mountain" type steam locomotive built in May 1927 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Eddystone (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway ...

* - San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society (

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) * Santa Fe 3450* -

RailGiants Train Museum RailGiants Train Museum is a List of railway museums, railroad museum of historic trains located at the Fairplex in Pomona, California, United States. It is owned and maintained by the Southern California Chapter of the Railway & Locomotive Hist ...

( Pomona, CA) * Santa Fe 3415* - Abilene & Smoky Valley Railroad ( Abilene, KS) *

Santa Fe 2926 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 2926 is a class " 2900" 4-8-4 type steam locomotive built in May 1944 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (ATSF). It was used to pull passenger and fast freight trains, mostly ...

- New Mexico Steam Locomotive & Railroad Historical Society (

Albuquerque, NM Albuquerque ( ; ), also known as ABQ, Burque, the Duke City, and in the past 'the Q', is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico, and the county seat of Bernalillo County. Founded in 1706 as ' by Santa Fe de Nuevo México gover ...

) * Santa Fe 1316* - Texas State Railroad ( Palestine, TX) * Texas & Pacific 610 - Texas State Railroad ( Palestine, TX) * Southern Pine Lumber Co. 28 - Texas State Railroad ( Palestine, TX) * Tremont & Gulf 30/ Magma Arizona 7 - Texas State Railroad ( Palestine, TX) * Lake Superior & Ishpeming 18* - Colebrookdale Railroad (

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) * Florida East Coast 148 -

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( Clewiston, FL) * Atlantic Coast Line 1504* -

( Clewiston, FL) * Grand Canyon Railway 29* -

Grand Canyon Railway The Grand Canyon Railway is a heritage railroad which carries passengers between Williams, Arizona, and the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. The railroad, built by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, was completed on September ...

( Williams, AR) *

Grand Canyon Railway 4960 Grand Canyon Railway 4960 is a preserved O-1A class "Mikado" type steam locomotive, built in August 1923 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q). It was used by the CB&Q to pull freight trains until ...

* -

( Williams, AR) * Oregon Railroad & Navigation 197 -

Oregon Rail Heritage Center The Oregon Rail Heritage Center (ORHC) is a railway museum in Portland, Oregon, Portland, Oregon. Along with other rolling stock, the museum houses three steam locomotives owned by the City of Portland: Southern Pacific 4449, Spokane, Portland a ...

(

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) * Spokane, Portland & Seattle 700 -

(

) *

Southern Pacific 4449 Southern Pacific 4449, also known as the Daylight, is the only surviving example of the Southern Pacific Railroad's GS-4 class of 4-8-4 ''Northern'' type steam locomotives and one of only two streamlined GS class locomotives preserved, the oth ...

(

) * Southern Pacific 4460 -

National Museum of Transportation The National Museum of Transportation (TNMOT) is a private, 42-acre transport museum, transportation museum in the Kirkwood, Missouri, Kirkwood suburb of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1944, it restores, preserves, and displays a wide ...

( Kirkwood, MO) *

Southern Pacific 4294 Southern Pacific 4294 is a class " AC-12" 4-8-8-2 cab-forward–type steam locomotive that was owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1944 and was used hauling SP's trains ...

California State Railroad Museum The California State Railroad Museum is a museum in the California State Parks system that interprets the role of railroads in the Western U.S. It is located in Old Sacramento State Historic Park at 111 I Street, Sacramento, California. Featu ...

(

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) * Southern Pacific 2479 -

Niles Canyon Railway The Niles Canyon Railway (NCRy) is a heritage railway running on the first transcontinental railroad alignment (1866, 1869) through Niles Canyon, between Sunol and the Niles district of Fremont in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay ...

( Sunol, CA) * Southern Pacific 2472 - Golden Gate Railroad Museum *

Southern Pacific 2467 Southern Pacific 2467 is a preserved Southern_Pacific_Class_P-8, P-8 class 4-6-2 "Pacific" type steam locomotive. Built by Baldwin in 1921, it was used by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company, Southern Pacific Railroad to pull Passenger t ...

Pacific Locomotive Association The Pacific Locomotive Association, Inc. (PLA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the physical aspects and atmosphere of West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast Rail transport, railroading during the period from 1 ...

* Southern Pacific 2353 - Pacific Southwest Railway Museum ( Campo, CA) * Southern Pacific 1744 -

( Sunol, CA) * Southern Pacific 786 - Austin Steam Train Association, Inc. ( Cedar Park, TX) * Southern Pacific 745 - Louisiana Steam Train Association, Inc. ( Jefferson, LA) * Southern Pacific 18 - Eastern California Museum ( Independence, CA) * Cotton Belt 819 - Arkansas Railroad Museum ( Pine Bluff, AR) * Frisco 1522 -

( Kirkwood, MO) * Southern Railway 401* -

Monticello Railway Museum The Monticello Railway Museum (initialism, initialized MRYM, reporting mark MRMZ) is a non-profit railway museum, railroad museum located in Monticello, Illinois, about 18 miles west of Champaign, Illinois. It is home to over 100 pieces of railro ...

( Monticello, IL) * Reading 2100* - American Steam Railroad Preservation Association (

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