[SEL] Interesting old advert....smoke stack?

[Richard Strobel]

I've heard that different stacks (on the locomotives) were used, depending 
on what type of fuel was used..wood vs. coal.  Draft plus it helped quench 
the sparks.

RickinMt.






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "peter ogborne" <jopeter at omninet.net.au>
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Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:21 AM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Interesting old advert....smoke stack?


> Yes Alan ...that would be correct . Perhaps the inverted cones created a
> better venturi . The ejection of exhaust steam through the stack is the 
> way
> it was done here ....we also have it on a 1904 Ruston Proctor Portable 
> Steam
> Engine that we run here. Those opposing cones were a distinctive feature 
> of
> North American Locos.I would like to go to Buckley but it is in the other
> hemisphere!
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan Bowen" <rustaholic777 at yahoo.com>
> To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 7:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [SEL] Interesting old advert....smoke stack?
>
>
> > Hi Peter,
> > Burning wood, or coal, that smoke stack was where they sent the steam
> > after the piston used it so it would speed up the draft.  That made the
> > fire burn hotter.
> > Just maybe the shape of the stack is what they figured would make the 
> > most
> > difference.
> >
> > Come see this at the Buckley show.  Every night during the show they 
> > hook
> > up a steam traction engine to the Prony Brake and throw in a few shovels
> > full of sawdust.  Then they use the Prony Brake to put a load on the
> > engine and the stack puts out a spark shower WAY up in the air.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > peter ogborne <jopeter at omninet.net.au> wrote:
> > Jerry.........something I have often wondered about is why do old time 
> > US
> > loco's have that distinctive smoke stack ? Is it that they burnt wood or
> > is
> > there another reason ?
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Jerry Evans"
> > To: ;
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 10:01 PM
> > Subject: [SEL] Interesting old advert
> >
> >
> >> Hi List
> >> I just came across this interesting old advert on our local "Sandstone
> >> Estates" site which came from "Farm Mechanization" Magazine about the
> >> coast
> >> to coast raillink in Utah in 1869.
> >>
> >> I thought you may like to share - especially those in the U.S.A.
> >>
> >> >
> >> While you are there have a look at the rest of their site especially
> >> "Sandstone Heritage Trust".
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> If you get as far as the Stationary Engine Inventory:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I took the photos and put up the webpage for them. I will also be going
> >> there soon to photograph their vintage tractor collection - they have
> >> more
> >> than 200.
> >>
> >> Hope you enjoy it
> >> Best regards
> >> Jerry Evans in S.A.
> >
> >
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