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Southern RR F3s with rooftop air tanks

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Southern RR F3s with rooftop air tanks
Posted by Bayfield Transfer Railway on Sunday, December 6, 2020 9:17 PM

Southern put rooftop air tanks on some of their F3s.  I've found several pictures taken from ground level, but there are some aspects of the piping that aren't clear.  Does anybody have pictures or diagrams showing the full piping on the roof?

Thanks.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Sunday, December 6, 2020 9:38 PM

I found this, from an O scale blogger, scroll, it shows roof details.

https://davejfr0.blogspot.com/

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Posted by Bayfield Transfer Railway on Monday, December 7, 2020 1:36 PM

Fantastic!  Just what I needed!  Thank you SO MUCH!!!

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Posted by Overmod on Monday, December 7, 2020 2:01 PM

Bayfield Transfer Railway
Does anybody have pictures or diagrams showing the full piping on the roof?

The TL;DR from the blog containing the review of the Sunset 2-rail O gauge Fs:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Iz9d46pqJTY/XvggMrLddOI/AAAAAAAAGMM/SyuxibAADywwOdwE0dK45j90W1qp4NCjwCK4BGAsYHg/s1920/IMG_3699%2B%2528Large%2529.jpg

Note that the pipe comes up from over the compressor, runs completely around all four reservoirs, and then back down into the carbody.  There will be more than this to the piping, as any condensation getting into those tanks will need to be expellable.  That means that the tanks would each have a slight angle toward one end, and at the bottom of the shell there would be something like a short nipple or pipe connection to a spitter valve or equivalent.  If you email Scott (sdmann@3rdrail.com should still work, shouldn't it?) he should be able to point you at his source of prototype information that would show this.

 

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