@maxm2317 It is just decorative skirting on the firebox. The Class A was designed to burn soft coal from the start. Wooten fireboxes are a bad design for bituminous coal, which is why the Reading 4-8-4s (rebuilds from older 2-8-0s that had Wooten fireboxes) didn't have the horsepower of other 4-8-4s that had fireboxes designed to burn high quality bituminous from the start.
It looks as though the 1218 has a Wooten firebox.
maxm2317 4 months ago
@maxm2317 It is just decorative skirting on the firebox. The Class A was designed to burn soft coal from the start. Wooten fireboxes are a bad design for bituminous coal, which is why the Reading 4-8-4s (rebuilds from older 2-8-0s that had Wooten fireboxes) didn't have the horsepower of other 4-8-4s that had fireboxes designed to burn high quality bituminous from the start.
UnIonPacCheyenne 2 months ago
those are nice passenger cars
rocksmeller99 4 months ago