boiler for N&W 2300, "Jawn Henry"

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I thought that the C&O steam turbine locos had fire-tube boilers.

Gordon Hamilton

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> Responding to the query and comments on the Jawn Henry (#2300) water tube

> boiler, I want to note that in the 37th Edition of Steam, the annual 

> Babcock

> and Wilcox publication on that subject published in 1955, there is a photo

> of the boiler that would be installed in the 2300 set up for operational

> testing on a shop floor.  It can be found on page 26-5.  Its only

> resemblance to a locomotive in that image is strictly in terms of

> proportions and scale, and accomodation to the carbody style of the

> diesel-electric locomotives of the period seems to have been in the minds 

> of

> its designers from inception.

>

> This seems to differ from some other designs for water tube boilers in

> locomotives, but consistent with the design used by the C&O "Chessie"

> project of roughly the same time.

>

> Sorry to have taken as much time in looking this up and posting.

>

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