Oil burner (engine)

This article is about the engine. For other uses, see Oil burner (disambiguation).

Oil Burning Locomotive: Southern Pacific 2472 at the Niles Canyon Railway

An oil burner engine is a steam engine that uses oil as its fuel. The term is usually applied to a locomotive or ship engine that burns oil to heat water, to produce the steam which drives the pistons, or turbines, from which the power is derived.

This is mechanically very different from diesel engines, which use internal combustion, although they are sometimes colloquially referred to as oil burners.[1]

  1. ^ Spinelli, Mike (25 May 2006). "Diesel on the Range: Land Rover Flagship to Come in Oil-Burner". Jalopnik. Retrieved 8 September 2017.