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Adriatic posted:
CBQer posted:

I think I read the mountain based trains such as the D&RG ran the cabooses so the stack was behind the cupolas so as the stove was used the smoke would not filter into the caboose. Some would say the caboose is running backwards.

Dick

Are.you.saying downhill,the  atmospheric pressure increase over cabin pressure (still at lower high alt pressure) is enough to stifle the flow of the flue and even reverse the flow?  I.could kinda see it if the stove side stacked, stoves fills if leaned and it comes out a crack/seam up high.

I don't think that he said any such thing. He was just saying that the smoke would come into the cupola because the stack was in front of the cupola...the same way exhaust gasses from diesels would curl into the locomotive cab when running long hood forward.

That said,
O. Winston Link made films while riding the top of a caboose coupled behind the tender of a Class A. He rode on top in front of the cupola. The audio from some of these trips was on his album "Mainline To Panther". On one of those tracks, he speaks of how "The brakeman has a very powerful cigar"..."I can smell it even though the wind is blowing from me to him"..."Boy is it putrid!" Folks, the OWL was getting sick!

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