Re: Lerro's Spring 2023 Photo Event on the East Broad Top
| May 09, 2023 06:21PM |
Kelly Anderson Wrote:
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> They need to find a source of smokeless coal for
> those events. You never see black clouds in
> photos where they were burning the Broad Top coal
> they used to haul.
Interestingly, the photos that I have seen of the regular trains at EBT from the Winter Spectacular, and last weekend, all look very much like the ones we took on Pete's charter a couple of weeks ago. And as I understand it, many of the engine crew folks down there are veterans of a well-known tourist railroad with boat-loads of steam experience, so they probably know a thing or two about how to fire one of these machines correctly. So yeah, I'm guessing it's the coal.
/Kevin Madore
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> They need to find a source of smokeless coal for
> those events. You never see black clouds in
> photos where they were burning the Broad Top coal
> they used to haul.
Interestingly, the photos that I have seen of the regular trains at EBT from the Winter Spectacular, and last weekend, all look very much like the ones we took on Pete's charter a couple of weeks ago. And as I understand it, many of the engine crew folks down there are veterans of a well-known tourist railroad with boat-loads of steam experience, so they probably know a thing or two about how to fire one of these machines correctly. So yeah, I'm guessing it's the coal.
/Kevin Madore
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