Re: Running an engine at night

Well,,, In the video I watched, the hogger was working steam and you could hear the engine working as well, you could see him handling the throttle and power reverse lever.......

It may very well be an "editing" thing. I watched some other videos of that operation and the fireman was using 4-5 scoops to a fire, which is much more reasonable, so mebbe what we were watching was actually distorted in some way.

Also, if the arch tubes and brick arch have been removed on those engines, it may very well affect the way they need to be fired.

The only engine I actually ever fired without a brick arch was old 346 at the CRRM and we were taught to shoot the side sheets in those
fireboxes and let the draft and the curve of the sheet down to the grates level the fire, and avoid tossing much way down front where it
could block the lower flues.

Dick Cooper used to chew our asses for putting in a "road fire"
on that engine when all we were doing was going back and forth
on a few hunddred feet of track hauling one or two cars....We didn't need to keep her on the pops all the time.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/25/2011 11:02PM by Etrump.