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4-8-8-2 Cab Forward question

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Posted by WPAllen on Friday, July 16, 2010 5:14 PM

Lookinging through my book Beaumont Hill I find that some of the AC's have it and some don't. I see one that has the end straps/supports but the actual splitter is gone. No snow sheds on the Sunset Route.  

 

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Posted by Forty Niner on Friday, July 16, 2010 4:28 PM

Talk about something that needs to be operated in a well ventilated area!! I smoke those little Dutch Masters cigars and there is no way I could ever produce that much disgusting smoke!!

That stuff makes me "gag"..............I wonder what the health hazards are with that stuff?

I can just imagine what it does for "clean" track!!!

Again, I use the KISS theory, keep the smoke, keep the sound, and keep the DCC, if I don't use it it can't break.

Mark

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Friday, July 16, 2010 4:07 PM

By the way that MTH unit can billow out some large amounts of smoke.

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Posted by Forty Niner on Friday, July 16, 2010 3:54 PM

No silly, that's where they "smoked" him to get those "smoked hams"!!!!

Buy ya books and buy ya books and all you do it look at th pictures!!!

Mark.................;-)

P.S. That's 100% correct about the "splitter" and the snow sheds, also helped disperse the huge amount of smoke that sometimes bellowed from those stacks.

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Posted by tinman1 on Friday, July 16, 2010 3:26 PM

I always thought thats where the pig went for the hog-roastDinner

Tom "dust is not weathering"
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Posted by Hamltnblue on Friday, July 16, 2010 3:15 PM

Thanks Smile

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Posted by markpierce on Friday, July 16, 2010 3:04 PM

That's an exhaust splitter so as to reduce the likelihood the loco will blow the wooden roofs off the snow sheds.

Mark

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4-8-8-2 Cab Forward question
Posted by Hamltnblue on Friday, July 16, 2010 2:59 PM

Hello All

Today I was checking out one of the new MTH cab for-wards. It looked and sounded great.

While watching it run I notice that there was a bar that ran across the smoke stacks right down the center.  I just googled some pics and found that it's prototypical.

What is the bar used for.

Here's a couple of pics.  Arrow points to bar.

Springfield PA

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