boiler for N&W 2300, "Jawn Henry"

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Responding to the query and comments on the Jawn Henry (#2300) water tube 
boiler, I want to note that in the 37th Edition of Steam, the annual Babcock 
and Wilcox publication on that subject published in 1955, there is a photo 
of the boiler that would be installed in the 2300 set up for operational 
testing on a shop floor.  It can be found on page 26-5.  Its only 
resemblance to a locomotive in that image is strictly in terms of 
proportions and scale, and accomodation to the carbody style of the 
diesel-electric locomotives of the period seems to have been in the minds of 
its designers from inception.

This seems to differ from some other designs for water tube boilers in 
locomotives, but consistent with the design used by the C&O "Chessie" 
project of roughly the same time.

Sorry to have taken as much time in looking this up and posting.