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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 11:23 am 

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Looks more like a bell mouth extension of the stack than a petticoat.......Jason, reckon you can find something showing the whole front end and the exhaust stand and nozzle?

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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 11:29 am 

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Nope, least not on the N&W site and I was rather disappointed as well. By definition, is a petticoat though..... a spade is a spade ;-)

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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 1:19 pm 

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Then we agree to disagree. In my book a petticoat is a loose part between the exhaust orifice and the stack.
Your second drawing shows a stack with internal elongation and bellmouth, precisely the equipment Goss found to give the best result!
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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 3:11 pm 

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Perhaps it is a matter of generational differences in terminology(historically, not between you and I). All petticoats have a "bell mouth" as it has now twice been referred to whether just an angle or more fluid as this one is drawn. Define a "loose part" if you would as all petticoats are "loose" until they are bolted into place. I have seen petticoats referred to by another name on prints dating from the '40s but it does currently escape me. Something simple like lower stack perhaps?

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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 3:34 pm 

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I am not a native speaker, with "loose" I mean that an airgap exists between the the stack and the petticoat.
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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 4:09 pm 

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I find myself sharing Dr. Koopmans' perspective on the difference between the bottom of the stack that is inside the smokebox as the bottom of the stack, and a separate fabrication that doesn't directly attach to the stack but allows smokebox gasses to pass between it and the stack as a "petticoat".

For purposes of clarity in this discussion can we agree on that?

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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:40 pm 

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The most interesting thing in the above drawings is what appears to be a solid "teardrop" section in the center of the second stack near the exit.

That is a weird one.

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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 6:54 pm 

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Hugh,
To me it is just an enlarged detail of the profile at the stack exit. Look at its dimensions.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:32 pm 

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I think you're right Jos. That's just an odd way to show it.

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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 9:18 am 

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Dave wrote:
I'd be very interested in seeing the drawings.......including the exhaust nozzle.

dave

Here it is, in two halves due to its size. Everything about it is way out of proportion to the standards later agreed on for the Master Mechanic’s front end. The exhaust nozzle is round, 5-1/4” in diameter, with a single bridge.

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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 10:33 am 

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Prints found on the N&W historical society page are obviously pay off a modernization program. Afterall, how many turn off the century locomotives were not modernized? (Lest they be on a shortline) What strikes me is the overlapping of revision dates, by a decade.
The attached drawing is for the stand and nozzle which accompany the new stack arrangement. As is shown in the drawing you posted [Kelly] there was a need to move everything forward to clear the delivery "T".

My guess would be (regarding redundant drawings) locomotives in more strenuous service received the improvements while they chose to not invest into motivepower that just loafs along a branch under light loads at a leisurely pace.

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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 11:55 pm 

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jasonsobczynski wrote:
My guess would be (regarding redundant drawings) locomotives in more strenuous service received the improvements while they chose to not invest into motivepower that just loafs along a branch under light loads at a leisurely pace.

Thoughts?

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Jason my friend,

Study your N&W history... something must have worked very well with the M's.
Yes, they were branchline power in their later days, but many N&W branchlines had rather nasty profiles combined with relatively high traffic...they definitely didn't "loaf". If you don't believe me, ride a bike up the Virginia Creeper Trail, or look at the 3% + grade on the old Hanging Rock/Catawba line (part of the Salem Shifter job), which was the last assignment of the two surviving M's, 433 and 475.......

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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 1:11 am 

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Loaf as in speed, they weren't running 35 or so on all these braches were they? Low speed, heavy load was my point. Any other ideas regarding the double standard of design?

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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 12:23 pm 

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jasonsobczynski wrote:
Loaf as in speed, they weren't running 35 or so on all these braches were they? Low speed, heavy load was my point. Any other ideas regarding the double standard of design?

Jason



Can't speak for all of the branches, but the Abingdon branch job started in Bristol. That's 15 miles or so on the mainline, and there are at least a couple of times where the Ms equaled the speed of the Js on that section.
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 Post subject: Re: NH&I 40 exhaust
PostPosted: Tue Sep 03, 2013 1:19 pm 

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Kevin Gilliam wrote:


Can't speak for all of the branches, but the Abingdon branch job started in Bristol. That's 15 miles or so on the mainline, and there are at least a couple of times where the Ms equaled the speed of the Js on that section.
Kevin


So why were the J's running so slow in that area?


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