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Belpaire fireboxes-any safer ? (and PRR T1) (any PRR steam)
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N&W DID have Belpaire fireboxes on some pre-1900 locomotives. <br /> <br />ALL fireboxes would fail if you let the crown sheets be uncovered long enough. Even the Jacobs-Shupert firebox was tested to destruction after running dry. <br /> <br />Belpaire fireboxes were considered more expensive to build - the exterior shoulders at the front corners were more difficult to form - but more staybolts of equal length could be used. PRR backers claim more efficiency from Belpaires, but other railroads including N&W were not willing to pay the extra money for what must have been only a marginal advantage. <br /> <br />PRR's stock ownership of N&W did constitute control, but PRR recognized that it would be better off not interfering with N&W's affairs. It was right. During the period of stock ownership, N&W paid PRR almost $407 MILLION (data from N&W annual reports, figured on dividends N&W paid out during the years of PRR ownership of 39% of N&W's common stock - this includes every year during the depression, some of which PRR made no money on its own operations). PRR let N&W do its own thing, being content to ca***he dividend checks. This might have been the smartest move PRR ever made. N&W fans have a basis for saying that PRR's status as the "Standard Railroad of the World" was paid for, at least partly, with N&W dividends. <br /> <br />N&W did paint passenger cars red like Pennsy, but it didn't come out of the same can. <br /> <br />N&W did use position-light signals, like Pennsy, but signal rules were different. <br /> <br /> - Old Timer
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