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Summary

1201 showing piping into steam chests. Exhaust steam will feed into nozzles located in the smokebox, under the stack. This will produce the beat of the locomotive as it begins to move, as steam is blasted up the stack. This in turn sucks air into the firebox, providing a draft for the fire, and helps expel combustion gases up the stack.

The pipes coming into the top of the steam chest at an angle from the smokebox are the high pressure inlets coming from the superheater.

The pipe seen connecting the two steam chests is probably an exhaust manifold, feeding into the blast pipe/exhaust nozzles in the smokebox.

Museum of Sci and Tech, Ottawa Ontario, Storage building. This engine is operable, but will need majour work first. Was used in excursion services up to the 1990s. Nearby are the Royal Train, an Electric locomotive used in Montreal, and a GM diesel-hydraulic engine designed for export.

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