Re: Sparks from wood burners
| August 19, 2017 11:58AM |
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Jim Grigsby Wrote:
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> Dan is quite right about the sparks. At night our
> W. H. Eccles Heisler looks like a rolling volcano.
> It has never set the depot platform on fire, but
> has set fire to the wooden walkway on a steel
> tank car as well as the cupola on caboose 5 . . .
BodieCalifornia Wrote:
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> I seem to remember seeing the Inyo start a fire
> on the deck of a flatcar about 10 years ago at
> the museum. Or maybe that was Eureka.
Ah-yup –
A big cinder from Eureka landed in my shirt pocket while I was riding the front platform of the first coach behind her on the D&S back in '08.
It burned a big hole in the shirt and a little hole in me before I managed to snuff it out . . .
- Roosso
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> Dan is quite right about the sparks. At night our
> W. H. Eccles Heisler looks like a rolling volcano.
> It has never set the depot platform on fire, but
> has set fire to the wooden walkway on a steel
> tank car as well as the cupola on caboose 5 . . .
BodieCalifornia Wrote:
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> I seem to remember seeing the Inyo start a fire
> on the deck of a flatcar about 10 years ago at
> the museum. Or maybe that was Eureka.
Ah-yup –
A big cinder from Eureka landed in my shirt pocket while I was riding the front platform of the first coach behind her on the D&S back in '08.
It burned a big hole in the shirt and a little hole in me before I managed to snuff it out . . .
- Roosso
, Strassburg
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