From: lfsheldon@gmail.com   
      
   On 5/20/2014 9:38 PM, Charles Ellson wrote:   
   > On Tue, 20 May 2014 19:47:53 -0500, Larry Sheldon   
   >  wrote:   
   >> One remaining question, or maybe two--why are the cylinders as far away   
   >>from the boiler as they can be? Do the exhausts lead back to the smoke   
   >> stack?   
   >>   
   > Looking at a few photographs, mounting the cylinders at the inward   
   > ends of the engines would generally seem to put them foul of the   
   > solebar of the centre section. It only seems to have been done with   
   > smaller narrow-gauge locomotives where the centre section allows more   
   > clearance above smaller cylinders, e.g. B-G K1 class :-   
   > http://nationalrailwaymuseum.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/dsc090631.jpg   
      
   Makes sense--I could have guessed that if I had thought more carefully,   
   since I was fretting about clearances.....!   
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