![]() "The most important thing is that the homes where possible are made secure and habitable and this is done at pace particularly given the time of year. She said: "My concern is that this tragic event is not forgotten and people are just left to struggle on. Local MSP Sue Webber said that the Baberton community had rallied to help those forced to leave their homes with clothes and supplies as well as providing emergency accommodation. ![]() I think the reality of what happened is just creeping up on people now." He and his wife Sylvia have been living with a family member for the last week and are due to move into an Airbnb in Edinburgh.Īrthur said: "We know we had a lucky escape. He lives directly across the road from the blast site and helped lead Robert to safety. Retired firefighter Arthur McAnna, 83, whose home was also damaged, is hopeful of getting back before the end of the year. Others helped lead her partner Robert to safety.īoth Robert, 54, and Stephanie, 43, are being treated in the specialist burns unit of St John's Hospital in Livingston. – Martin E.Gas engineers and police officers at the scene (Image: Lesley Martin/PA Wire)Ī number of locals, including Steven MacLennan and Ross Aitchison, have been hailed as heroes for pulling Stephanie from her collapsed home. Such railroads tended to have their locomotive designs set by the 1920s and few roads altered the smokeboxes on new engines they bought after that time. This often coincided with changes in the fuels used. Such railroads may vary in operating terrain from which the secondhand engines were originally designed to handle and may, especially in the case of logging railroads, change the type of fuel used in a locomotive.Īt the turn of the 19th century, it was not unusual for mainline railroads to modify smokeboxes to increase their drafting abilities. The railroads that were most likely to modify smokeboxes on their locomotives were those that bought engines secondhand from other lines. ![]() On other occasions, if an engine was superheated, the shop may need to add length to the smokebox to give room for the superheater header and pipes. In those occasions it was not unusual for the railroad’s shop workers to redesign the smokebox. Many times, crews would find that a certain locomotive was not a good steaming engine because it did not appear to draft well. Some soft types of coal did not burn as hot as harder coal and thus there was a need to increase the drafting of the smokebox to create a hotter fire in the firebox. ![]() Coal-burning engines often had longer smokeboxes than oil-burning engines due to railroads using various types of coal. The dimensions of a smokebox on any given locomotive are designed to create the most efficient drafting of the exhaust and the hot vapors from the firebox. At the same time the hot vapors from the firebox are drawn through the boiler tubes to both give draft for the fire and to enable the tubes to heat the water in the boiler. Why would some locomotives have short smokeboxes and others longer smokeboxes? – Tom Gaps, Milwaukie, Ore.Ī The primary purpose of the smokebox on any steam locomotive is to enable the cylinder exhaust to exit the locomotive. I do note, in most cases, that when the smokebox is long, the stack is almost always at the rear of the box. Q I am unable to identify any particular pattern for when a smokebox is short or when it is long. ![]()
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