As I understand it, some locomotives had the coffin
heater inset into the smokebox, thus eliminating the
eyebrow. This forced the stack to be farther aft, so
this could produce a funny proportion. Im not sure if
the Q ever did that. Unfortunately, I do not have
Corbin here. I'll check further when I get home.
--- Gene Tacey <taceys@g...> wrote:
> No, Lignite burners had a overhanging look since the
> smokebox was extended. The
> extension was the entire smokebox, whereas coffin
> FWH form an arch when installed
> and look more like a huge eyebrow. The extensions
> contained extra screening since
> Lignite (i.e. Sub-Bituminous) coal has far less
> BTU's per weight than bituminous
> resulting in much more ash being created when
> burned. You can tell by looking at
> locomotives in the same class and see the overhang.
> Gene
>
> KPMF16@a... wrote:
>
> > Some of the Q's engines had Coffin feed water
> heaters that may be mistaken as
> > "bulging smoke box extensions." Is this the case
> here?
> >
> > Ken Thompson
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
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-Steve Wintner
"Hearts have been hard
Hands have been clenched into fists too long"
-Midnight Oil
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