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Where? and What are Gabbage Stacks?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/05/09 08:42 by flynn.

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How about cabbage stacks? The spark arrestors on steam engine smoke stacks.
Roger B

Note that the engine is a woodburner, but has a more modern front end with extended smokebox. This front end was designed to be 'self cleaning', to throw cinders out the stack. But burning wood develops lots of sparks which the smokebox was not designed to deal with, so the cabbage stacks were added, which contained baffles to swirl the sparks around in the bulge until they broke up and burned out before being expelled.

Great photo find! #19 is now in service on the SVRR after restoration.
I don't know the location but I don't think it is the south Baker shop. Too many trees. Any SVRR experts to let us know?
Bluesman



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From the Denver Public Library digital photo website, http://denverlibrary.org .

The photo above is DPL photo MCC-3179. “Title: Locomotive (Sumpter Valley Ry - #19 & #17). Summary: Sumpter Valley Railway Locomotives 19 and 17 (narrow gauge) side by side at an Oregon railyard, they are wood burning engines with Gabbage [Cabbage] stacks, Number 19 has a full tender of wood. Date: (Between 1940 and 1944?) Creator: Louis Charles McClure 1867-1957. Collection: L. C. McClure collection 1890-1935; album III, 177. Notes: Title from inventory prepared by Western History Department, Denver Public Library. Negative number hand-lettered on film negative. Medium: 1 photonegative; image 16.5 x 24 (6 1/2 x 9 1/2) on sheet 19 x 24 cm. (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.) 1 photoprint; image 18 x 24 cm. (7 x 9 1/2in.) on sheet 19 x 24 cm. (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.). Condition: Film negative deterioration; masked by photographer."

I did a Google search for Sumpter Vally Railway and got a number of interesting websites. Three of these websites are listed below.

http://www.svry.com

http://www.sumpter.org/menu/svrr.html

http://www.historicsumpter.com/sumpter-oregon-sumpter-valley-ry.html

I did a Google search for Railroad Cabbage Stack and got a number of interesting websites. Three of these websites are listed below.

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,1956095

Railroad Dictionary http://www.geocities.com/gold27ca/glossary.html

http://www.taplines.net

The taplines website has some very interesting photos. On the home page about three quarters down the page in the column on the left there is a feature, The Mystery Photos. Mystery Photos 1, 3, 5, and 6 have been solved. Mystery 2 and 4 have not been solved. If a member of Trainorders is able to solve one or both of these photos, please give the results on this page as well as notifying the webmaster of taplines.

Looks like Baker City.