I suppose the prototype's engineers complained about the blow-back through the firebox and the steam, if any, blowing out of the stack? Saw this one on that auction site....old repair maybe.
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Looks like one a' dem fancy European lercermertives ya' got raight dere. 
I don't know about that, but its old, doesn't have cruise and the stack is in the wrong spot, so they should just throw it away now before it wrecks a young mind
Reminds me of a return flue Huber traction engine...
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Well actually reminds me of an engine too
But the stack is still in the wrong place!
Throw it on the floor and kick it!
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Yep, not quite a return-flue boiler methinks. Seller says it's an Issmayer. It seems to be suffering from the same ailment that causes the endless photos of tenders bass-ackwards to their locomotives.
It's probably a real steamer. The dome in the normal stack position looks like the boiler fill point. I have one of my grandfather's home made stationary boilers and the port you fill the boiler with looks just like that.
Originally Posted by sinclair:
It's probably a real steamer. The dome in the normal stack position looks like the boiler fill point. I have one of my grandfather's home made stationary boilers and the port you fill the boiler with looks just like that.
I think it is too. I saw one much like it recently.
If the same, it would be an inside frame cylinder powering the large front drivers.
