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Steam & Excursion > Another 1920 ExampleDate: 02/22/26 04:23 Another 1920 Example Author: MacBeau Gottfried Heibesen framed K4s 3744 scoping water at Glenolden and still sporting its as built piston rod extensions.
Photo credit the Library of Congress, Bruce Fales collection Be of good cheer, —Mac www.lowellamrine.com  Date: 02/22/26 05:34 Re: Another 1920 Example Author: jkh2cpu That's quite an image of PRR K4 action back in the day. It must be a warm day because there are plenty of opened windows on those coaches.
Date: 02/22/26 09:17 Re: Another 1920 Example Author: refarkas It looks like it is picking up water from a track pan.
Bob Date: 02/22/26 10:41 Re: Another 1920 Example Author: MacBeau Noted in the caption.
—mac refarkas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It looks like it is picking up water from a track > pan. > Bob Date: 02/22/26 11:15 Re: Another 1920 Example Author: Gonut1 I find it interesting that it has only been recently by McBeau posts that the PRR had extended piston rods. It seems so odd but so much of steam locomotive "technology" at the time was through trial and error. Apparently the extended rods offered none of the improvements that Altoona hoped for.
Thanks for all the interesting posts. Gonut Date: 02/22/26 12:26 Re: Another 1920 Example Author: timz Two more track-pan pics in the earlier thread
https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,6121972,6121972#msg-6121972 All the same place, or two places, or three? Date: 02/22/26 12:59 Re: Another 1920 Example Author: WrongWayMurphy How was water kept from freezing in those pans in winter?
Heaters? Or were pans flooded just before the trains arrival? Date: 02/22/26 14:52 Re: Another 1920 Example Author: MacBeau The track pans were heated in winter, a feature that no doubt dictated placement.
—Mac WrongWayMurphy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How was water kept from freezing in those pans in > winter? > > Heaters? Or were pans flooded just before the > trains arrival? Date: 02/22/26 14:55 Re: Another 1920 Example Author: timz Steam pipes running the length of the pan?
Wonder how much room between the bottom of the scoop and the bottom of the pan. Maybe a quarter-inch of ice on the surface wasn't a problem for the scoop? Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/22/26 15:01 by timz. |