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4-6-0 camelback locomotive, complete with Wootten firebox.
The Wootten firebox is a type of firebox used on steam locomotives. The firebox was very wide to allow combustion of anthracite waste, known as "culm". Its size necessitated unusual placement of the crew, examples being camelback locomotives. The Wootten firebox made for a free-steaming, powerful locomotive, and the cheap fuel burned almost smokelessly; the combination made for an excellent passenger locomotive, and many camelbacks operated in this service.
The Woottenfirebox is a type of firebox used on steam locomotives. The firebox was very wide to allow combustion of anthracite waste, known as "culm"...
reasons. Camelbacks were developed to allow for the use of larger fireboxes, such as the Wootten, which would obstruct the engineer's view from a conventionally...
of New South Wales Bayard Wootten (1875–1959), American photographer Wootton (disambiguation) Wooten WoottenfireboxWoottens Luxury Travel, a coach operator...
top boiler and firebox shown for comparison. Woottenfirebox Saunders, Lawrence; Blundstone, S. R. (April 1924). "The Belpaire Firebox". The Railway Engineer...
avoid revealing their position to the blockaders. The invention of the Woottenfirebox enabled locomotives to directly burn anthracite efficiently, particularly...
include a trailing truck, and the first engine with the cab behind the Woottenfirebox. Engines with the name "lessor" in its title meant some steam power...
Wide Firebox Boiler A boiler with a wide, shallow firebox resting on the frames and extending out beyond them at the sides. The WoottenFirebox, which...
own shops; the Reading used this design until the invention of the Woottenfirebox in 1877. It was subsequently adopted by the Baldwin Locomotive Works...
to achieve the required result. The engine was fitted with a large Woottenfirebox. There were three separate grates and ash pans, one on each side outside...
designed new classes of steam locomotives with the newly-introduced woottenfirebox to burn anthracite coal more easily, as well as to increase the tractive...
cylinders I 4-4-0 with 19" dia. cylinders J 4-4-0 and 4-4-4 with Woottenfireboxes K 2-6-0 L 0-8-0 M 4-4-0 with 20" dia. cylinders N 4-4-4-4 — One locomotive:...
Anthracite Roads of Pennsylvania, so instead of having regular fireboxes, they had Woottenfireboxes which allowed them to burn anthracite coal. Since these...
during and after WWI locomotives during this time were noted for their Woottenfireboxes; designed to burn the harder anthracite coal. By the mid 1930's all...
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