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james brodieUser is Offline

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03/29/2008 10:55 AM  
wood in cabs:-usually the rear sandboxes had wooden covers on them infact in our NER style cabs we sat on the top of the sand boxes and there were footsteps of wood one for the driver to stand on to raise him up The floor boards had battens underneath them a to pick out in one or two pieces b to stop them moving about when you were standing on them while firing
On tank engines the water side tanks that came into the cab usually were planked over so you wern't leaning on ironwork but these wooden covers dissapeared when the steamraisers were short of wood when lighting up the fires!! The other wood was coal boards that fitted into the tender coal shute to stop the coal flowing down and over spilling onto the cab floor. Some other locations of wood on the engine apart from the drivers was the front buffer beam or pilot beam. These had steel plate wood plate then steel plate like a sandwich when the wooden beam was replaced by a single steel beam then the side buffers were packed out with circular wooden disc so the buffers were still the original length. I will try and send some descriptive photos if that is allowed, but please be patient with me as with poncuters I am a novice Jim Brodie
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03/29/2008 11:16 AM  
well, thanks a lot for the descriptions!
and if you need to know something about putting photos... -everybody here is crazy about photos, so everybody will help you as good as possible to bring them up! just ask.

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