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employee2

December 17, 2010 02:35AM

Registered: 13 years ago
Posts: 492

That's not smoke, it's steam. My guess is, given the weather conditions, they hooked up a steam connection to thaw out the ice and snow in the pit, before they could turn the engine.

You would never drop ashes into a turntable pit. Even if it didn't burn up the table bridge, it would soon render the turntable unusable.

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Smoke in Turntable?	carrwoodrr	December 16, 2010 06:57PM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	Jon Bentz	December 16, 2010 07:00PM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	carrwoodrr	December 16, 2010 09:13PM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	bcp	December 16, 2010 08:00PM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	El Nehi	December 16, 2010 09:27PM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	Floppo	December 17, 2010 12:04AM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	employee2	December 17, 2010 02:35AM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	South Park	December 17, 2010 04:43AM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	Dirk Ramsey	December 17, 2010 05:18AM
Re: Smoke in Turntable ...	Russo Loco	December 18, 2010 05:29PM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	Kelly Anderson	December 17, 2010 04:49AM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	CharlieMcCandless	December 17, 2010 07:13AM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	Jerry Day	December 17, 2010 07:37AM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	Dick Bell	December 17, 2010 07:52AM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	Fritz Klinke	December 17, 2010 11:53AM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	Jerry Day	December 17, 2010 12:32PM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	40sfan	December 18, 2010 09:24AM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	Jerry Day	December 18, 2010 09:32AM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	Festus	December 17, 2010 09:15AM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	Jerry Day	December 17, 2010 11:25AM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	Stephen M Smith	December 17, 2010 12:56PM
Re: Smoke in Turntable?	Jerry Day	December 17, 2010 01:10PM
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