Posted by Bruce Beveridge on September 20, 1998 at 15:26:47 in dyn1-tnt1-55.chicago.il.ameritech.net:
In Reply to: Forecastle Steam Valves posted by Bob Read on September 19, 1998 at 13:45:39:
I think the model shown in F.S.M. is great and accurate except for those six wheels. The four are there as was discussed. The minerature ship has the outer two wheels placed two far out. The Father Browne photo of the starboard forecastle shows this plainly. As for the two extra wheels seen stuck in there and waist hight in the F.S.M. picture, I think those are the brake wheels represented there and they made them two high. Bob, I haven't skimmed through the movie in slow motion yet but I don't believe that there were six waist high wheels. The forecastle picture you refer to is the same picture in "Titanic at Two". They made a mistake in the caption. That is the Britannic not "O". It is missing two cowl vents and the crew skylight on the forecastle. Also look at the way the chain ramps slope up high at the fore end. The fore chain brakes are also waist high. I believe that on "B" the brakes were made waist high as you can plainly see in the picture that the extra two wheels are different then the other four and exactly the same as the type wheel used on the brake. There is a domed shape in the middle and the lack of the extension mounted vertical to the wheel used to turn it with one hand.
I think Digital Domain used that picture for a reference there (or something)I think it's wrong. If those extra two were there we'd be able to see one in the Father Browne photo or there would be more exidence of those two on the wreck as they would have been attached to the brake box.
Bruce