There were a couple ways of routing the bell rope around domes between bell and cab.
Sometimes an arched tube was put at base of dome, with arch upside down to follow natural curve of rope. Have see photo with that tube less than a foot long to around a couple feet long. Sometimes that arched tube was on boiler jacketing below dome instead of on side of dome base.
Sometimes a simple loop somewhere on side of dome or base of dome was used and bell rope passed through it.
While the tube looks cool, for simplicity's sake, on my models I'm using a loop cut from those craft pins which have either a head or a loop. Superglue in to a hole, oh, I don't know the drill bit size, but small, on side of dome and away you go.
Here, this shows a high loop. I don't know if that it prototypical for D&S locos, but, hey, it is what I want to do.
Whistle cord arrangement is per assorted plans and photos, ones I know where they are without having to look much are in Kalmbach's book Steam Locomotive Cyclopedia, which I think is out of print at the moment.
Note: typically in US, bell rope was on fireman,s (left) side - on the Big Haulers I've turned bell around on ones where it could be persuaded to come unglued, on the others, whatever the factory glue was, it was very good stuff and the bell is staying backwards.
Sometimes an arched tube was put at base of dome, with arch upside down to follow natural curve of rope. Have see photo with that tube less than a foot long to around a couple feet long. Sometimes that arched tube was on boiler jacketing below dome instead of on side of dome base.
Sometimes a simple loop somewhere on side of dome or base of dome was used and bell rope passed through it.
While the tube looks cool, for simplicity's sake, on my models I'm using a loop cut from those craft pins which have either a head or a loop. Superglue in to a hole, oh, I don't know the drill bit size, but small, on side of dome and away you go.
Here, this shows a high loop. I don't know if that it prototypical for D&S locos, but, hey, it is what I want to do.
Whistle cord arrangement is per assorted plans and photos, ones I know where they are without having to look much are in Kalmbach's book Steam Locomotive Cyclopedia, which I think is out of print at the moment.
Note: typically in US, bell rope was on fireman,s (left) side - on the Big Haulers I've turned bell around on ones where it could be persuaded to come unglued, on the others, whatever the factory glue was, it was very good stuff and the bell is staying backwards.