boiler for N&W 2300, "Jawn Henry"

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Sun Nov 8 18:54:13 EST 2009


Responding to the query and comments on the Jawn Henry (#2300) water tube
boiler, I want to note that in the 37th Edition of Steam, the annual Babcock
and Wilcox publication on that subject published in 1955, there is a photo
of the boiler that would be installed in the 2300 set up for operational
testing on a shop floor. It can be found on page 26-5. Its only
resemblance to a locomotive in that image is strictly in terms of
proportions and scale, and accomodation to the carbody style of the
diesel-electric locomotives of the period seems to have been in the minds of
its designers from inception.

This seems to differ from some other designs for water tube boilers in
locomotives, but consistent with the design used by the C&O "Chessie"
project of roughly the same time.

Sorry to have taken as much time in looking this up and posting.



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