by Allen Hazen
Page 133 of Alvin Stauffer's "B&O Power" has a photo of 4610 (a Q4 heavy Mikado) with smoke deflectors (reasonably small, European-style, ones, not the barn-door "elephant ears" used on NYC Niagaras and assorted UP power) and an odd elongated (but apparently fairly narrow) smokestack. Caption says it is a Kylchap exhaust. No date is given, and I didn't see any further information in the text.
I'm not sure I can tell the difference, but the stack looks rather like a Giesl ejector. (Only U.S. Giesl application I know of was on a C&O switcher.)
Does anybody know more about this (evidently experimental) application of European front-end ideas on the B&O?
I will try to post this on the B&O forum as well.
I'm not sure I can tell the difference, but the stack looks rather like a Giesl ejector. (Only U.S. Giesl application I know of was on a C&O switcher.)
Does anybody know more about this (evidently experimental) application of European front-end ideas on the B&O?
I will try to post this on the B&O forum as well.
