Steve --
There is a picture on p. 117 of Corbin and Kerka showing 0-3 # 5320 with a
Coffin FWH. Says these were applied to 3 others of that class and later
removed. The list of locomotive assignments from 1935 (page 292 of C&K)
lists these locomotives as Nos. 5318, 5320, 5325, and 5341. All were
assigned to the Ottumwa division and were bituminous coal burners. A quick
perusal of that same list shows them as the only Coffin-equipped engines on
the Q (although maybe I missed one or two others). And those feedwater
heaters were apparently gone by the time of the 1952 list (wonder why the
Coffins were less successful than either the Worthington or Elesco units?).
Extended smokeboxes for lignite, however, were VERY widespread on the Lines
West, and were to be found on most of the 4-8-2s, as well as many 2-6-2s,
2-8-2s, 2-10-2s and other classes.
Jonathan Harris
>Hi all,
>
>As I said I was going to do before, I've looked over
>Corbin and Kerka. According to them, none of the
>Burlingtons steamers had a Coffin feedwater heater
>(FWH), and quickly perusing the pictures, I saw none
>of the beetlebrowed Coffin heaters or anything
>appearing to be an inset Coffin heater. I did see
>several S2 pacifics with an extended smokebox, and
>Elesco FWHs - presumably the extended smokebox
>contained the additional screening , etc for lignite.
>
>Regarding Bills comments regarding moving the stack to
>accomodate an inset Coffin heater, I had been thinking
>of the stack relative to the smokebox front, not the
>rest of the loco, sorry if that caused confusion.
>Bill, thanks for correcting my poor description.
>
>
>
>=====
>-Steve Wintner
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> Hands have been clenched into fists too long"
> -Midnight Oil
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