Locos at Clare OH early 1900s

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This thread has answered a minor nagging question I've had for years of what that bit of piping and valve was on top of the boiler of my N&W E2a pacific.

Dave Phelps 

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> On Aug 11, 2016, at 9:56 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> No. Only on some roads. N&W was one.
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> Jim Nichols
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> On Thursday, August 11, 2016 5:39 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Didn’t top checks become standard in the later years of steam?
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> pete groom
>> On Aug 10, 2016, at 9:13 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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>> Hi, Bud.
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>> I have heard that too and it sounds logical. I also read someplace that the top CV (supposedly invented by the N&W) was also less stressful to the boiler as to thermal shocks when the cooler water was injected. That also sounds logical.
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>> Roger Huber
>> Deer Creek Locomotive Works
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>> The reason that N&W used boiler top check valves was for safety.  If a locomotive was involved in a wreck, there was a tendency to shear off the side boiler check and having it on top reduced that risk.
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>> Bud Jeffries
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>>> I don't have any information as to whether it helped or not.
>> Jim,
>>     Again, "You can read about it in the N&WHS Newsletter Vol.6, No. 1, Jan. - Feb. 1990."
>>  I think the practice first started in England as I have read of it being used on the "Saint" Class 4-6-0 locos around 1902. While the exact appliance may not have survived, the principle did, in that it did help preheat the water entering the boiler. And, it must have worked well enough that the N&W went almost exclusively to top mount check valves.
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>> Jimmy Lisle
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