04-11-2011, 08:36 PM
Steamtrains Gus ...
According to the drawings and photos of a Pennsy Class L1s 2-8-2 on page 65 of the Model Railroader Cyclopedia Volume I, The whistle is mounted horizontally on the rear of the steam dome, with the actual mount on the engineer's side and the top of the whistle to the firemans' side, with the actuating lever on the uppermost side. The actuating cord appears to come across the top of the boiler to a point even with the side of the steam dome, go around some sort of vertical post and then back across the top of the Bellpaire firebox and into the cab.
There is a "deflector" attached to the steam dome under the whistle which the curves up behind the whistle. This deflector is evident on the side elevation drawing and in one of the two photos, but it is not visible in the other photograph.
The notes say this locomotive was designed at the same time as the mighty K4s Pacific and that it shared the same boiler. I didn't know that. They were first built in 1914.
The one discrepancy that I noticed is the big fat SINGLE tank out on the "front porch," mounted laterally with a full width step/platform on top of it. The PRR I1s Decapod 2-10-0 had the twin longitudinally mounted tanks (pages 58 & 59.) The photo at the top of page 58 shows the whistle's position horizontally on the rear the rear of the steam dome and the photo at the top of page 59 shows the side view of the upwardly curved deflector. The engineer's side elevation drawing on that page also shows the location and orientation of the whistle.
Wow! I just learned quite a bit about the Pennsy's Mikado and Decapod! That book really is a virtual bonanza of information!
According to the drawings and photos of a Pennsy Class L1s 2-8-2 on page 65 of the Model Railroader Cyclopedia Volume I, The whistle is mounted horizontally on the rear of the steam dome, with the actual mount on the engineer's side and the top of the whistle to the firemans' side, with the actuating lever on the uppermost side. The actuating cord appears to come across the top of the boiler to a point even with the side of the steam dome, go around some sort of vertical post and then back across the top of the Bellpaire firebox and into the cab.
There is a "deflector" attached to the steam dome under the whistle which the curves up behind the whistle. This deflector is evident on the side elevation drawing and in one of the two photos, but it is not visible in the other photograph.
The notes say this locomotive was designed at the same time as the mighty K4s Pacific and that it shared the same boiler. I didn't know that. They were first built in 1914.
The one discrepancy that I noticed is the big fat SINGLE tank out on the "front porch," mounted laterally with a full width step/platform on top of it. The PRR I1s Decapod 2-10-0 had the twin longitudinally mounted tanks (pages 58 & 59.) The photo at the top of page 58 shows the whistle's position horizontally on the rear the rear of the steam dome and the photo at the top of page 59 shows the side view of the upwardly curved deflector. The engineer's side elevation drawing on that page also shows the location and orientation of the whistle.
Wow! I just learned quite a bit about the Pennsy's Mikado and Decapod! That book really is a virtual bonanza of information!
biL
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Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln