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Message: [QUOTE="Cian O'Reilly, post: 457456, member: 166706"] Hi Bill, just to continue on from the previous post and discuss the catwalks traversing the engine at the lower level - the layout of the catwalks. In the early stages of constructing my 3d model I actually included the central main bearing you mentioned, mistakenly assuming it to be present on Olympic and Titanic, but removing it when the error was pointed out to me. At the same time I configured the catwalks as indicated in available plans of the Britannic's engines. Ultimately though, the layout of these catwalks as they appear in the model is based not only on the available imagery of the Britannic but also on one of Robert Welch's images of Titanic's engines in the H&W engine works, which seems to indicate the presence of catwalks not only at each end of the engine but also the wider one you see in the middle - see attached images. While I think that the first two catwalks are fairly clear in the image, the third (at the forward end of the engine) is basically occluded from sight by the support column and the bearing casing but I can make out what appears to be an upright stanchion from an incomplete catwalk rail between the inboard and outboard columns. The attached image cut though only deals with the two visible catwalks at the aft end and in the middle. The first image shows a clearer view of my layout, the second shows the Titanics engines at top and the forward end of one of Britannic's engines at bottom. [/QUOTE]

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