09-30-2011, 11:37 AM
This firebox type is a Wootten firebox, very wide and shallow and having a curved crown sheet of large radius, used for anthracite coal burning locomotives which require a large grate area - from Locomotive Cyclopedia 1925.
Anthracite coal must lay in a very thin layer on grate in order to get an intensive and hot burning fire so these engines need this extra large grate. The Reading was one of these railroads which used (or owned ?) rich anthracite coal fields.
Anthracite coal must lay in a very thin layer on grate in order to get an intensive and hot burning fire so these engines need this extra large grate. The Reading was one of these railroads which used (or owned ?) rich anthracite coal fields.
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