From: lfsheldon@gmail.com

On 5/20/2014 9:38 PM, Charles Ellson wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2014 19:47:53 -0500, Larry Sheldon
>  wrote:
>> One remaining question, or maybe two--why are the cylinders as far away
>>from the boiler as they can be? Do the exhausts lead back to the smoke
>> stack?
>>
> Looking at a few photographs, mounting the cylinders at the inward
> ends of the engines would generally seem to put them foul of the
> solebar of the centre section. It only seems to have been done with
> smaller narrow-gauge locomotives where the centre section allows more
> clearance above smaller cylinders, e.g. B-G K1 class :-
> http://nationalrailwaymuseum.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/dsc090631.jpg

Makes sense--I could have guessed that if I had thought more carefully,
since I was fretting about clearances.....!
--
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h/t Dagelijkse Standaard

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