PART IX : The Funnel
Well, if there is something steamengines can't go without it's the funnel of course.
I've never understood why those american locs had those almost caricatural trumpet shaped huge funnels. At one point I have read sometime that those were used on engines that used wood or peat while the normal slimmer funnels were used on engines running on coal. I don't know if that is true or not, so I am not going further into that.
The diagram :
Part of the parts... again I had forgotten to take a picture...
Here you can see that I have only used half of the bolts, because of the size, they would have been too close to eacheother to look good.
And looking at this part, it finally, after all these years it became clear to me that this trumpet was nothing more that a thing to catch cinders and other flaming hot rubbish being lanced from the actual funnel.
These cinders had to be cought of course, so I used mosquitomesh to simulate the metal mesh the actual funnel must have contained :
All funnelparts together give this :
