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
That's an exhaust splitter so as to reduce the likelihood the loco will blow the wooden roofs off the snow sheds.
Mark
Thanks
I always thought thats where the pig went for the hog-roast
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.
By the way that MTH unit can billow out some large amounts of smoke.
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.
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.