Peat As Locomotive Fuel

It seems that peat has been permanently adopted as fuel for locomotives on the Vadstena-Oderhous railway in Sweden after a series of exhaustive tests to determine its relative value as compareil with coal. In the final tests a locomotivo pulled a train at regulation speed, aucl up the steepest gradi#.its, stt-ani being maintained at ful i prcssure, with even cokl water fed into the boiler.