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Bill Hobbs

July 17, 2021 08:10AM

Registered: 16 years ago
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Ran across these interesting videos on Youtube yesterday. I had no idea how labor intensive just getting coal onto an ocean liner was.
Bunkering coal on an ocean liner:

The coal to oil conversion:

I have not been bothered by converting locomotives to oil. It always seemed a reasonable thing to do.

Bill

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Coal to Oil Conversions from a ocean ship perspective	Bill Hobbs	July 17, 2021 08:10AM
Re: Coal to Oil Conversions from a ocean ship perspective	BrockD&RGW488	July 17, 2021 08:30AM
Re: Coal to Oil Conversions from a ocean ship perspective	michael	July 17, 2021 08:50AM
Re: Coal to Oil Conversions from a ocean ship perspective	wcohen	July 17, 2021 07:02PM
Re: Coal to Oil Conversions from a ocean ship perspective	John K	July 18, 2021 05:28AM
Re: Coal to Oil Conversions from a ocean ship perspective	Buffalo Bob	July 18, 2021 08:13AM
Re: Coal to Oil Conversions from a ocean ship perspective	Brian Norden	July 18, 2021 10:40AM
Re: Coal to Oil Conversions from a ocean ship perspective	John K	July 18, 2021 05:51PM
Re: Coal to Oil Conversions from a ocean ship perspective	Will Gant	July 18, 2021 05:29PM

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