Why does the smokestack of old steam-powered locomotives have that odd narrow-wide-narrow shape? Why isn’t it just straight like a pipe?

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Why does the smokestack of old steam-powered locomotives have that odd narrow-wide-narrow shape? Why isn’t it just straight like a pipe?

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Wood burning steam engines have that shape and it contains a spark arrestor so it doesn’t set everything on fire. Coal and oil burning engines have a straight pipe

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