Re: CTSRR - Cumbres Pass

rehunn Wrote:
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> Roger, as usual, excellent effort but I'm so
> confused.  Like {just} 20 seconds of water?

Speculation:  It's the E/F school train, so they probably didn't really need much water but wanted to allow
the student engineer to spot the engine properly and the fireman to practice topping off the cistern.

> And did he leave with the cocks shut?
> Oh well, it's just a movie.


... And movies never lie, right?   As noted above, it's the E/F school train, and possibly a student overlooked something ...   I'm guessing that with a pause that brief that there wasn't enough condensation in the cylinders to cause a problem, but IMHO the cocks should have been open nevertheless.

- Rússo

p.s. IIRC, on the supplement to Volume Two of "How To Run a Steam Locomotive", Neil Vodden of the 2472 crew mentions always opening the cylinder cocks after stopping his train - but I may mis-remember this, so I'll dig out the video and report back in a couple of days ...



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/26/2014 08:00PM by Russo Loco.