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:''This article is about the engine. For a meaning related to heating device, see Oil burner.''
An 'oil burner engine' is an engine that uses oil as its fuel. The term is often used with reference to a train or ship engine that burns oil to produce steam that drive the turbines, from which the power is derived. Some engines of this form were originally designed to be coal powered and were converted. An early pioneer of this form of engine was James Holden.^[1][2]
This is mechanically very different from a diesel engine that is a form of internal combustion engine, which is sometimes colloquially referred to as an oil burner.

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Trains powered by oil burner engines

Ships powered by oil burner engines

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References

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Trains powered by oil burner engines

★ Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

★ LNER Class U1

★ Snowdon Mountain Railway

★ Union Pacific 737

Ships powered by oil burner engines

★ USS Drayton (DD-23)

★ USS Terry (DD-25)

★ USS Perkins (DD-26)

★ USS Sterett (DD-27)

★ USS McCall (DD-28)

★ USS Warrington (DD-30)

★ USS Burrows (DD-29)

★ USS Monaghan (DD-32)

★ USS Trippe (DD-33)

★ USS Walke (DD-34)

★ USS Ammen (DD-35)

★ USS Jarvis (DD-38)

★ USS Henley (DD-39)

★ USS Jouett (DD-41)

★ USS Jenkins (DD-42)

★ USS George Washington (1908)

See also

★ Oil refinery

★ Steam power during the Industrial Revolution

★ Timeline of steam power

References

1. Marine Fuels, Cletus H. Jones, , , ASTM International, 1985, ISBN 0803104251
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External links

★ The General Becomes An Oil Burner

★ Fuel energy & steam traction

★ Diesel on the range