Someday very soon I am going to Colorado to witness this and take a ride on this railroad. Great videos by the YouTube poster. Unreal that the coal used to fire this locomotive has beeen in operation for over 100 years also.
Someday very soon I am going to Colorado to witness this and take a ride on this railroad. Great videos by the YouTube poster. Unreal that the coal used to fire this locomotive has beeen in operation for over 100 years also.
That is great to hear sir. Thank You for sharing thisMy dad, 97 and still gets around a little was a fireman, later locomotive engineer for Seaboard Airline Railroad from the early 1940's til the late 1970's. When he started the vast majority of SAL locomotives were steam. In the early 1950's the tide turned towards diesels. SAL converted some of their coal fired steamers over the years to burn Bunker C, and the later and larger coal fired steam locomotives had mechanical stokers, thankfully. He is one of the very last of the generation who operated steam locomotives in revenue service in the US.
Even the most inefficient coal fired generating unit is more efficient than a steam locomotive. That was the reason steam locomotive they were replaced by diesel electric power. You and I both learned that in physic 101. RegardsI had a great day at the ZigZag railway, stoking for a day.
An old workmate was the driver, and he was on the board of the historic railway.
The power station I run is coal and steam...similar but different...
My bucket list is to have a steam engine.