Mac Poor article highlights: the C&S 'gizmo'

In doing some research for a new Bogies and the Loop article I came across an article by M.C. Poor published in the October 1948 Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin.  It was entitled "The Locomotives of the South Park R. R."

The following was an interesting excerpt:

"Because of the great number of fires started along the right-of-way by the engines, the company developed a new 'gizmo' known as the cinder catcher.  This contrivance resembled a big sausage hooked to the top of the stack and which hung down the side of the smoke box almost reaching the rails.  It was so designed that the cinders, caught by a screen placed above the stack, were deflected and dropped to the ground through a curved pipe running down the side of the smoke box."