Re: D&S to concert K-37 493 to oil

Unless it was converted back to coal, the 42 sitting in the D&S museum is an oil fired engine, thus the 493 will be the second engine on the property to be fired by oil. When it first went into service in 1959 at Magic Mountain as an oil burner, the local fire department was called more than once to put out fires. This was told to me by Bob Richardson who was somewhat amused that there were problems with burning oil somehow getting through the bottom of the fire box and setting fires. The conversion was new, the crews inexperienced in how to fire the engine, so they had a fun learning curve.