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Earlytimes
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 Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:26 am Post subject: Smoke Stack question |
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I was wondering why on some old locomotives ( mid, late 1800's ) the smoke stack is bell shaped at the top ?
They look cool, I know that 
I'll see if I can find a pic ? if you have one post it please.
Perfect example
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:22 am Post subject: |
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| Spark arrestors they are mainly used on wood burner like this but also coal |
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Earlytimes
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| scobby12 wrote: | | Spark arrestors they are mainly used on wood burner like this but also coal |
I hadn't thought of that..... Thank You !
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| Spark arrestors like that were mainly used in the US, don't think there was ever a standard gauge loco in the UK like that, and the only thing I can think of in the UK is leader, which is 2" I think! |
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Very interesting and informative. I also imagine that because it's so wet in much of the UK, even spark augmenters wouldn't stand much of a chance of starting anything  |
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Earlytimes
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| angus wrote: | | Very interesting and informative. I also imagine that because it's so wet in much of the UK, even spark augmenters wouldn't stand much of a chance of starting anything |
That's what I thought too... unlike the dry weather in the Western US.
It must of been really dry where the engine I posted above was running, it's smoke stack is extra Big.
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Hmmm. So the spark arrestor is to stop locos lighting fires in dry climates, why didn't Australian locomotives have them? Anyone have any ideas?  |
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we do sometimes use then and traction engines use then but they dont look out like that but they are only used for in parts of the yorkshire dales and when it is very dry and may cause a fire
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Earlytimes wrote: | | angus wrote: | | Very interesting and informative. I also imagine that because it's so wet in much of the UK, even spark augmenters wouldn't stand much of a chance of starting anything |
That's what I thought too... unlike the dry weather in the Western US.
It must of been really dry where the engine I posted above was running, it's smoke stack is extra Big. |
Actually most of our locos have arrestors built into their smokeboxes, its actually a requirment on the NYMR during the dryer seasons.
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We have one built in to the Burrell, it's hidden in the base of the chimney 
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The shape actually created a vortex that captured the embers so they would burn out and fall away as ash, the screen was there to break up larger ones.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| angus wrote: | | Very interesting and informative. I also imagine that because it's so wet in much of the UK, even spark augmenters wouldn't stand much of a chance of starting anything |
Depends where you are in the UK, Despite it being Spring its a drought and fires start surprisingly easily 
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| Atticman wrote: | | angus wrote: | | Very interesting and informative. I also imagine that because it's so wet in much of the UK, even spark augmenters wouldn't stand much of a chance of starting anything |
Depends where you are in the UK, Despite it being Spring its a drought and fires start surprisingly easily |
yeah Britain isnt as wet as most non-Brits seem to think, we have a drought like every year these days, Im already hearing talk of a hosepipe ban about to come into effect.
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| Atticman wrote: | | Depends where you are in the UK, Despite it being Spring its a drought and fires start surprisingly easily |
| pauly wrote: | | yeah Britain isnt as wet as most non-Brits seem to think, we have a drought like every year these days, Im already hearing talk of a hosepipe ban about to come into effect. |
Actually, I was being a little facetious about weather in the UK and its ramifications. As a sprog in Glasgow, not the least humid of places in that scepter'd isle, I remember that regularly there were track fires, presumably caused by cinders from the steam locos of the time. They'd keep vegetation cropped beside the tracks -- apart from those dedicated to the floral displays entered in the "Best Kept Station" competitions -- and use controlled burns as well (a kind of mini Mendocino National Forest approach). |
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Possibly the reason Aussie locos didn't use this type of chimney is in the 'goog old days' of steam the rail corridors were well cleared of vegetation. Not to say that steam engines didn't start a fair few fires though all the same !
Since the rise of green issues like no clearing, spraying or burning off and efforts to make rail corridors the last bastion of some threatened plant species [species which have been ploughed, grazed and sprayed to near extinction on adjacent farmland] by doing nothing in the way of clearing, many rail corridors have become weed infested and have significant fire risk these days. So much so mainline steam trips are suspended over the summer months and even the famous Puffing Billy in the Dandenong Ranges is diesel hauled on days of total fire ban and a fire patrol motor trolley is used behind trains in fire risk times.
These coments apply to Victoria, not sure if the situation in other states.
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