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smokebox door
Posted:
Fri Jul 08, 2022 5:15 pmby Allan Kirkpatrick
At about 5:40 pm mdt a worker opened the smokebox door while over the ash pit. He took a water hose and did something in the smokebox. He then dogged the door and backed the engines through the house to the other side.
Does anyone know what he was doing?
Allan
Re: smokebox door
Posted:
Wed Jul 13, 2022 9:10 amby Robert Brigham
Allan,
The railroad installed cyclone cinder-catchers in the front end of the coal-burning locomotives to mitigate the fire hazard posed by hot cinders. These catchers are designed to trap cinders in the smoke box, rather than blowing them out the stack. So, if I had to guess, I would say what you saw was them emptying the trapped cinders.
Rob
Re: smokebox door
Posted:
Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:33 amby Tom Casper
that may be but I thought it was 489 and she is an oil burner so can anyone confirm it was?
Tom C.
Re: smokebox door
Posted:
Fri Jul 15, 2022 7:05 amby Glenn Butcher
455, aka 463, pulled the regular train into Chama, so I think that was the locomotive being smokebox-cleaned... Edit: oh, I hope I'm not remembering Wednesday afternoon
489 is at the gas station right now...
Re: smokebox door
Posted:
Sun Jul 17, 2022 7:05 amby Tom Casper
Roger show 484 went East in the AM so it must have been 489
Tom C.