Super images of stations and railway works. Thanks. Who owns album/copyright, please?
Answer to question about the size of engine funnels is that they are spark arrestors to limit lighted bits coming out of the funnel and, therefore, reduce forest fires started by the passage of train. American locomotives had same feature as they too were powered by timber. Less sparks from coal, coke and oil burning locomotives so simpler funnels in Britain and western Europe.
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И почему у паровозов той поры такие огромные трубы?
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Who owns album/copyright, please?
Answer to question about the size of engine funnels is that they are spark arrestors to limit lighted bits coming out of the funnel and, therefore, reduce forest fires started by the passage of train.
American locomotives had same feature as they too were powered by timber.
Less sparks from coal, coke and oil burning locomotives so simpler funnels in Britain and western Europe.
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