Re: Rotary #99200
Posted by Derrell Poole on
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Good call, Mike, but unless you've established that no other D Class 1890 Baldwin had this stack at the time I don't think we can be certain. If Todd would put up the other view of the plow train you would see that 2 out of the 3 engines had this non standard stack - can't read any of the numbers. Here is No. 66 with just such a stack a few years earlier;
And what was the standard McConnell anyway? There were definitely 2 versions and maybe even 3 that we could call "McConnell stacks";
Perhaps the pancake style was the standard and the version(s) that followed were not?
It was this deep "McConnell" that made a re appearance about 1909 on 3 C&S locos after the fire-starter "shotgun" proved to be too costly (to the new CB&Q ownership?). Apparently the original McConnell wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the Railroad set about tinkering with it right away. Perhaps this deep version was expected to draft the best on a long smokebox?
I've found that each part of the TOC engines is a study of it's own right - stacks are one of the most interesting...
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Good call, Mike, but unless you've established that no other D Class 1890 Baldwin had this stack at the time I don't think we can be certain. If Todd would put up the other view of the plow train you would see that 2 out of the 3 engines had this non standard stack - can't read any of the numbers. Here is No. 66 with just such a stack a few years earlier;
And what was the standard McConnell anyway? There were definitely 2 versions and maybe even 3 that we could call "McConnell stacks";
Perhaps the pancake style was the standard and the version(s) that followed were not?
It was this deep "McConnell" that made a re appearance about 1909 on 3 C&S locos after the fire-starter "shotgun" proved to be too costly (to the new CB&Q ownership?). Apparently the original McConnell wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the Railroad set about tinkering with it right away. Perhaps this deep version was expected to draft the best on a long smokebox?
I've found that each part of the TOC engines is a study of it's own right - stacks are one of the most interesting...
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