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Earl

April 29, 2021 09:23PM

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The ashpans form hoppers down in between the frame rails and between the wheels. On engines with trailing trucks, the hoppers are on each side of the trailer truck axle. There are sliding doors on the bottoms of the hoppers that allow you dump the ashes out the bottom.

You do have to take a bit of extra care to clean out the trailer truck journal boxes on occasion to make sure you are not filling the box with grit and crud. We used to put some extra cotton waste in the box just inside the lid to catch the extra dirt, replacing it once a week.

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How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?	C.P.Huntington	April 29, 2021 09:09PM
Re: How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?	Earl	April 29, 2021 09:23PM
Re: How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?	Bruce R. Pier	April 30, 2021 08:57AM
Re: How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?	dshutson	April 30, 2021 09:07AM
Re: How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?	spieser	April 30, 2021 09:10AM
Re: Dumping the ashes on the C&TS (links to photos)	Russo Loco	April 30, 2021 06:58PM
Re: How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?	Sharrod	May 01, 2021 03:59PM
Re: How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?	Kelly Anderson	April 30, 2021 11:49AM
Re: How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?	Bruce R. Pier	April 30, 2021 12:07PM
Re: How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?	Chris Walker	April 30, 2021 02:22PM
Re: How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?	Jeff Taylor	May 01, 2021 08:19PM
Re: How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?	Sharrod	May 02, 2021 07:34PM
Re: How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?	John C	May 03, 2021 06:10PM
Re: How are the ash pans on coal burning locomotive emptied?	Kelly Anderson	May 04, 2021 07:42AM

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