Its nice to see these great machines restored. Thanks for posting.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
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Some folks here may have seen her, or remembered her visit in 1969-70 to the United States.
Note from the article: after a £4.2million restoration that has taken 10 years to complete
And it was more-or-less running when they started the “restoration”.
She is pretty. But I have to ask, I have always wondered; what are the “flaps” or “wings” on the front sides of the smokebox for?
Pete Thornton said:
Note from the article: after a £4.2million restoration that has taken 10 years to complete
And it was more-or-less running when they started the “restoration”.
OR
$6,099,970.87 USD at financial close in the UK today.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Devon Sinsley said:
She is pretty. But I have to ask, I have always wondered; what are the “flaps” or “wings” on the front sides of the smokebox for?
Smoke deflectors, sometimes called “blinkers” in the UK because of their strong resemblance to the blinkers used on horses and “elephant ears” in the US railway slang, are vertical plates attached to the front of a steam locomotive on each side of the smokebox. They are designed to lift smoke away from the locomotive at speed so that the driver has better visibility.
Quote Ross Mansell: “Smoke deflectors, sometimes called “blinkers” in the UK because of their strong resemblance to the blinkers used on horses and “elephant ears” in the US railway slang, are vertical plates attached to the front of a steam locomotive on each side of the smokebox. They are designed to lift smoke away from the locomotive at speed so that the driver has better visibility.”
… and the “driver” doesn’t choke to death in the many, many small tunnels on the British Rail system!
Thank you makes sense
Andrew Moore said:
Quote Ross Mansell: “Smoke deflectors, sometimes called “blinkers” in the UK because of their strong resemblance to the blinkers used on horses and “elephant ears” in the US railway slang, are vertical plates attached to the front of a steam locomotive on each side of the smokebox. They are designed to lift smoke away from the locomotive at speed so that the driver has better visibility.”
… and the “driver” doesn’t choke to death in the many, many small tunnels on the British Rail system!
Some of them were/are not so small…Severn. Tunnel for example…(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif) Interesting info below about it.
Didn’t the Union Pacific try the smoke deflectors for a while?
The Boston and Maine had them too on the Crack passenger engines.
The awful matt-black paint scheme, together with NER tender lettering reflect the wartime colour scheme.
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Don’t forget. Tac. The Great Western had the Severn Tunnel, over four miles long, on its network