12-30-2015, 02:01 AM
A sheathed smokebox has asbestos lagging applied to it, the same as the rest of the boiler barrel, which is then covered with sheet metal. This makes the smokebox area the same outside diameter as the portion of the boiler to which it's attached. I should have noted that these locos originally had sheathed smokeboxes, but the sheathing was removed as the locos were modernised.
The Bachmann injectors do represent the lifting type, and they're suitable for, from the photos I have available, 2606, 2607, 2611, 2616, and 2626. Most of the control area of this piping is located in the cabs of these locos, not exposed as on the Bachmann Consolidation, so you'd have the line from the tender (larger of the lower two Bachmann pipes) and the overflow visible beneath the cab, then the delivery pipe to the check valves visible on the boiler's sides.
Here's a somewhat blurry photo showing the control rods for lifting injectors which I've added to my locos. These and the pipes and fittings in the immediate vicinity would be inside the cab, unseen, on your locos:
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A photo of 2617 shows non-lifting injectors, so it's not adviseable to assume that consecutively-numbered locos were all converted from lifting to non-lifting types.
Wayne
The Bachmann injectors do represent the lifting type, and they're suitable for, from the photos I have available, 2606, 2607, 2611, 2616, and 2626. Most of the control area of this piping is located in the cabs of these locos, not exposed as on the Bachmann Consolidation, so you'd have the line from the tender (larger of the lower two Bachmann pipes) and the overflow visible beneath the cab, then the delivery pipe to the check valves visible on the boiler's sides.
Here's a somewhat blurry photo showing the control rods for lifting injectors which I've added to my locos. These and the pipes and fittings in the immediate vicinity would be inside the cab, unseen, on your locos:
A photo of 2617 shows non-lifting injectors, so it's not adviseable to assume that consecutively-numbered locos were all converted from lifting to non-lifting types.
Wayne