in steam
(of a steam locomotive) Having steam in its boiler and ready for work.
I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical. Tomas Tranströmer
I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow. Neil Armstrong