Garden Railway Forum

In the attached picture of Britomart On the rear cab sheet there is a curved line of rivets just under the roof line.
Then below that, there appears to be another line of about half a dozen rivets.

However, if you look inside the cab at the inside of the cab front, there is a row of holes which appear to be a match for the rivets on the back sheet. So does the back sheet have rivets or holes?

I would say definately holes

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Br ... ive%29.jpg

Thanks Steve. I've seen that pic but never looked through to the back !

...which begs the question... Why??!

philipy wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 6:34 pm Thanks Steve. I've seen that pic but never looked through to the back !

...which begs the question... Why??!

My only guess would be to let smoke / steam / heat out on colder days where you don't want the port holes open, but it is just a random guess. Not sure why you would do that on an open door cab, but I am sure they were there for a good reason

Yeah, that was my guess too, with the same reservations.