Yes Jim, You took the bait--lovely! Sooting up the boiler--tell me --I ran the 3/4" Britannia today and now have to clean all the tubes--and smoke box, and the ash pan UGH!!
Thanks for your advice anyway--it was good! You are always very helpful on this sslivesteam club. Geoff. Geoff, At risk of taking an offered bait > >I would not really advise ANY of your suggested firing modifications The >resultant sooting up of the boiler innards, you don't want to know about! >Jim Gregg. > >At 01:36 PM 5/15/04 -0700, you wrote: >> Thanks Tony, >> >>Yep, as I said it's complicated and you have made it worse, however youi >>rescued yourself by the statement "So suggest you build em as you like em >>and enjoy." >> >>BTW, I am not THAT old Walt, even if our lathes were powered by belts and >>donkeys. >> >>I am going to mix some coal dust in the alky wicks of another steamer's >>loco and see if they get some nice smoke while I observe from a distance. >>Or I may mix some oil with the alcohol--or try kerosone (paraffin) instead >>of alcohol, or just say "to hell with it". How can I drink it that way?? >> >>Geoff >> >> >> >>>Subject: Re: Head lights on British engines >>> >>>Hi Geoff, Paul, >>> Additional complications to the lamp arrangements are that the >>>Southern Railway,s engines ran a different lamp position coding system >>>than the other regions, particularly on the suburban lines. Lamp >>>arrangements were not standardised until the LMS, LNER, GWR and SR were >>>nationalised under BR (British Railways) in the 50s. Reference Ian Allen >>>British Railway Locomotives Locospotters yearbooks. >>> No matter, all the lamps were primarily dim manually lit oil lamps and >>>not the searchlights of the USA, South African or Indian railways etc. >>> Incidentally, I have a photograph of a British built American design >>>Mikado sitting in Nottingham Victoria station complete with the USA type >>>centrally mounted headlamp, taken while it was on its way to the London >>>Docks for export to the US. >>> Fortuneately small scale live steamers still have some poetic licence >>>left to suit the individual, and as yet do not have to be "politically >>>correct". So suggest you build em as you like em and enjoy. >>> Regards, >>> Tony D. >>> >>> At 01:55 PM 5/14/04 -0700, Geoff Spenceley wrote: >>>> Paul, >>>> >>>>Ref Signal lamps on Brit locos. >>>> >>>>Depends what the loco is doing: There are many variations of headlamp >>>>codes, It's complicated. I have a list I can snail mail it to you or try >>>>and scan it. Or, if you tell me what duties the tank is going to perform I >>>>can probably pick out the closest lamp arrangement for you. For example a >>>>Freight , mineral or ballast train stopping at intermediate stations has >>>>one lamp above the right buffer (looking from the cab). That might suit >>>>you--only one lamp to lose too! Personally, I identify all my locos as >>>>express passenger, no matter what they do, that way I don't get anymore >>>>befuddled than I already am and these colonists don't know a lamp from a >>>>buffer anyway--except Keith Taylor and Harry Wade--and Walt Gray????!! >
