NNG--How NOT to fire your locomotive
| August 03, 2012 12:12AM |
More crazy railroad stuff from the Web. This one comes to us courtesy of the RyPN forum. This spectacle was apparently attributed to a very inferior coal of small diameter. I assume the strong draft when moving away from the water tank lifted the fire right off the grate and blew it up the stack, still burning. What the fireman likely said would not be approved for posting on this forum!
Mike
Gallikos, Greece, December 18, 1998
Mike
Gallikos, Greece, December 18, 1998
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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