April 26, 2019 12:09PM
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trainrider47 Wrote:
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> If Eureka comes, as a wood burner with a small
> tender, how far can it travel before needing to
> wood up and take water? How are the logistics
> handled on the east end?
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> Michael Allen
Hi Michael,
When I rode the Eureka trips on the D&S back in the 2010/2011 time frame, the RR positioned wood supplies at strategic places along the Silverton line. Typically, they stashed the wood in box cars on sidings, like Elk Park, Tacoma, etc. The Eureka crew.....and sometimes passengers who had gloves would then form a wood line and pass the logs up to a crewmember who would efficiently stack the wood in the tender. Wooding up is definitely more time-consuming than loading coal or oil. The locomotive also burns through its fuel supply faster. Eureka has a voracious appetite for wood. I do recall a couple of trips in which she arrived in Silverton with not too many pieces of wood left on the tender floor. I believe that Dan's crew always carries a chainsaw.....just in case.
/Kevin Madore
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