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Operating logging steamers in the Pacific NW gave me opportunities to try boiler backhead cooking. Cooking in the oil-fired firebox was not an option. I can happily report that a 4 pound salmon foil wrapped with lemon and onion slices takes about 20 miles at slogging Mallet speeds! And the crew beh...

The trick to firebox culinary is to wait until you've reached your destination and the firebox has cooled down a bit. This is usually when the cinders have all been ejected to their new home in the smokebox or along the ROW. At this point, the crew has worked up a good appetite as well. You must co...

Thanks, but I'm more of a firebox "brats and oinions" guy myself. gotcha bruce, i would be a little skeptical myself as far as flavor from the coal fire. i mean i did have hotdogs cooked in the firebox of a steamboat once. and the boiler on the boat was wood fired. and i don't recall tast...

NP317 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:38 pm As long as they are gluten free...
RussN

coal fired pancakes, who's hungry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZNtyShfn1g

Dan

hard to know how much 1309 is really being worked. from everything I've heard, it's a bit rough mechanically but who knows. I wish them the best with it, I think it's currently down with some cylinder issues. But if you had it on 50 hoppers, likely louder than how it's run on WMSR. kinda like UP wi...

hard to know how much 1309 is really being worked. from everything I've heard, it's a bit rough mechanically but who knows. I wish them the best with it, I think it's currently down with some cylinder issues. But if you had it on 50 hoppers, likely louder than how it's run on WMSR. kinda like UP wi...

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...