Ashpan

General Advice

Charles V. Arnold wrote:

We have a draft door at either end of the ash pan which can be opened to any degree at will. When the engine is working hard, one of these doors is completely closed and the other only partly opened. This amount of opening is found by experiment by the operator in each individual case.

LBSC Virginia

• Grate and Ashpan model for LBSC's Virginia by Don Althouse

0-8-0 Caribou

Ashpan for 3-1/2 inch gauge 0-8-0 by Martin Evans, from 0-8-0 Canadian Switcher Caribou.

Allen Mogul

Steve Zuiderveen designed a sliding door ashpan for his Allen Mogul.

If you update your brake beams and linkages to be correctly/prototypically equalized, the bottom doors will no longer clear the revised brake components. This forced me to upgrade the ashpan to a slider variant.

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External Links

• "Ashpan", Chaski.org
• "A Real Dirty Job", Chaski.org
• "Grate and ashpan mounting", Chaski.org
• "Ashpan firebox air inlet", Chaski.org
• "Ashpan material", Chaski.org
• "Material thickness for ashpan", Chaski.org
• "Ashpan", Chaski.org
• "An Ashpan for the 4-6-0", Jeff Frost, LSOR July/August 2023, p.58