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NP317 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:22 pm Yes.
RussN

wow cool, she is alot louder with a load than 1309 is at WMSR and doesn't need diesels on the rear for dynamic braking either.

bill shields, everyone at NJLS always to this day still busts my chops about making coal dust bricks. but it's too much work. just sifting the dust out and blending anthracite to keep the smoke down is enough work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG5TFhdzak4

welsh is great, well too good actually. but it just didn't have that good sulphur smell to it. Hmmm. Maybe I'm missing something, but I''m having a hard time thinking that it's sulfur smell that you're missing. I grew up in a smelter town (Midvale, Utah) where sulfur dioxide was emitted by the ton ...

NP317 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:14 pm The 110 ton 2-6-6-2 logging Mallets I was privileged to operate had a "soft talk", sounding more like a shuffle, even pulling 4-5 heavy weight coaches.
I miss doing that.
RussN

like the one at black hills central? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgaVFgBfvJY

being a compound, probably very quiet stack talk. The high pressure cylinders can't really be heard, then they are feeding the low pressure cylinders. so the exhaust pressure hitting the exhaust stand is way less on that than simple articulated or certainly traditional non articulated like a LE 4-8...

here is another photo of that Y6b in england i was talking about. just came across it a few minutes ago with fully loaded train. imagine hearing the stack talk on it.

The problem that we have with the smaller fireboxes is that just getting the currently available coal to burn is a never ending problem. I hear my house with coal, and living on the edge of Amish communities, getting coal is not a problem. However the clinkers and slate that come with it, while man...

JBodenmann wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:52 pm Hello My Friends
That's OK Dan. No need to apologize. We are all here to have fun and to share information.
Jack

Hello My Friends It seems that Dan didn't read my post. I explained that I knew 5344 probably never had the oval plate. Let's see you prove it. 5344 was a test bed for many features such as streamlining. She had two different streamline treatments. Different tenders, different drivers, roller beari...

Black Smiths may always exist, so may this outfit selling Black Smith Supplies: https://www.centaurforge.com/Blacksmith-Coal-and-Coke/products/277/ thanks ron, the more suppliers i can add to my list. the better. granted the guy i have has been really good to me and others from my club and other cl...

Personally, I like the challange of coal firing. I started with my first live steam engine at 14 years old and learned that maintaining the correct fire in the box was paramount to keeping the pressure up. Too much, too little, too deep here and too shallow there were all part of having a good day ...

NP317 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 10:36 pm Dan:
I totally understand enjoying whatever you like in the live steaming world! And more power to you.
Same with me. And this is one of the things I love about our live steam adventures. Room for all.
I hope you get to coal fire your locos long into the future.
Steam on.
RussN