A steam locomotive is known to be able to pull more then any pure combustion engine locomotive. (Uncited)
Why didn’t oil fired steam locomotives take off?
This started when I watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hszu80NJ438
During the runtime, it mentioned oil fired retrofits.
I search it up, and found one.
It was an overview video of a modern retrofit, and it seems to not be too difficult to retrofit, even using the same steam blaster to spread the oil in the smoke box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up1UaMVnv4M
I always wondered why trucks didn’t become diesel electric or have a Prius style drive train (with diesel engine). Would be a lot easier to drive.
A gearbox is much smaller and lighter that what’s required for a diesel-electric setup.
Diesel-electric is used for big engines in ships and railroads, where the necessary torque would destroy a gearbox.