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Pressure Under Control

1
Feed the fire, not the clock
A well-laid fire burns eight hours. Rushing the kindling means stoking blind.
2
Every pound of pressure earned
Building to 225 psi takes an hour. Dropping it takes one careless valve.
3
The gauge never lies
Bourdon tubes calibrated to half a percent. Trust the needle, never the sound.
4
Clean water, clear run
Blowdown every hundred miles. Boiler scale costs more steam than any headwind.
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