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rod5nz

January 03, 2013 04:11AM

Registered: 12 years ago
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Alamosa dipped to -30F this morning.

I am quite curious what it was like to run a coal fired steam engine in extremely cold weather. How much extra fuel was needed? Did the firemen have to shovel additional coal to keep the locomotive operating in bitter cold? Did switches freeze? Did wheels freeze to rails? Did water freeze in the tender? Lastly, What were the conditions like in the cab???

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Running steam at -30F	rod5nz	January 03, 2013 04:11AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	CharlieMcCandless	January 03, 2013 04:49AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	Taylor Rush	January 03, 2013 05:18AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	Earl	January 03, 2013 07:45AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	guymonmd	January 03, 2013 08:29AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	jim pallow	January 03, 2013 08:49AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	CharlieMcCandless	January 03, 2013 08:51AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	Stewart Rhine	January 03, 2013 10:00AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	Eugene Blabey	January 04, 2013 06:57AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	gbrewer	January 03, 2013 10:36AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	John C	January 03, 2013 10:23AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	MD Ramsey	January 03, 2013 11:45AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	Jason Rose	January 03, 2013 12:27PM
Re: Running steam at -30F	gbrewer	January 03, 2013 12:30PM
Re: Running steam at -30F	C. Llamas	January 03, 2013 12:47PM
Re: Running steam at -6F	Jim Grigsby	January 03, 2013 11:58PM
Re: Running steam at -6F	C. Llamas	January 04, 2013 07:48AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	Greg Scholl	January 03, 2013 01:31PM
Re: Running steam at -30F	gbrewer	January 03, 2013 01:41PM
Re: Running steam at -30F	Gavin Hamilton	January 03, 2013 06:39PM
Re: Running steam at -30F	Greg Scholl	January 04, 2013 07:09AM
Re: Running steam at -30F	John C	January 04, 2013 01:16AM

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