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Smokestack
The cast smokestack from Allen Models is too tall for my engine because the Wooten firebox has to sit above the drivers. The distance from the rail to the top of the stack on the prototype when built was 14 feet, 11 inches. That was reduced to 14 feet, 9-1/2 inches when the engines were…
Inside Admission Piston Valves, part 1
The locomotive I am building has outside pistons and inside valves. I have cast iron cylinders but I am constructing the piston valve housing from bronze tubes and copper fittings. Bronze liners will be pressed into the housing (black in the cross section above). The housings are 5-3/16 inches long; the outside diameter on the…
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