GCRY 4960

[Klinger]

are you a railroader for a steam railroad?

YES!!!! How many times do I have to say that. I volunteer at the Colorado Railroad Museum as a Brakeman. I don't run 346 (yet) but I know enough about how steam works to point out all the holes in your arguments. Hell it takes 5 people a good solid day just to clean 346 for an event, and then less then an hour for it to get dirty again.

A friend of mine got to fire 346 during lunch break once. I learned for fire West Side Lumber Co. 12. A shay locomotive we finished putting back together last October. I also run the Train at Lakeside amusement park where I work, and this year I will be at the top of the seniority list for operating the parks 2 steam locomotives. Which are a pain, because you have to be the engineer, fireman, brakeman, and conductor all at once, and you don't have any brakes.

 

[Sampug394]

Which are a pain, because you have to be the engineer, fireman, brakeman, and conductor all at once, and you don't have any brakes.

Naww, that makes it all more exciting.

It's not like you'll have a catastrophic runaway anywho XD

 

[Ronayne]

Dpfan: You argue too much, and you won't listen to others who know much more than you.

Please actually learn something about trains, before you come back and start thinking you know more about trains than the other members.

 

[joneau]

Ronayne, just so it's clear, dpfan1 has been (finally) banned.

Not that your post would help matters. If he didn't learn anything in an ENTIRE MONTH, one more day wouldn't have helped matters

 

[Ronayne]

Ahhh. I didn't realise he had been banned. Thanks for that. :wave:
(I feel much happier now :hehe: ).

 

[jadebullet]

How many threads are you going to make, where you whine about how Strausburg should restore some steam locomotive. They are busy enough as it is. Hell, they have a perfectly good Reading Camelback sitting outside rotting as it waits in line patiently for other locomotives to get done, mainly PRR since those were started back when the museum had a bias towards their PRR stuff.

*Spoiler Alert* They aren't going to grab this locomotive or any other locomotive that you bring up. Other restorers might, but not Strausburg. Strausburg isn't the only place in the world that can restore steamers.

You have over 400 posts, and I am pretty sure that, besides the posts that you made arguing that Danny Phantom was teh bezt evar!!!!1111!!!, I am pretty sure that 80% of those posts are talking about how Strausburg should grab this locomotive and restore it.

 

[mikeman]

It will be awhile before he starts up again Jade. He got banned.......:hehe:

 

[jadebullet]

So the system works?

 

[K4driver]

So the system works?

Looks like it,

 

[JCitron]

The engine, if I am correct on this, was always an oil burner, or converted a very long time to that fuel. Having it burn vegi oil is a lot easier than redoing the engine again to burn coal. The other reason too is this is a win, win situation for the GCRY. They have an oil burner that runs vegi oil. This is better for the environment than either coal, or bunker oil, which it used before. The other thing too is vegi oil is recycled, and it's a way to remove the waste cooking oil. In addition, this is now a big tourist attraction, and probably more so because it's the first steam locomotive to burn waste food oil.

John

 

[joneau]

The engine, if I am correct on this, was always an oil burner, or converted a very long time to that fuel.

Sorry, but I got to correct you on this. The 4960 was built as a coal burner, and remained configured that way until its rebuild at GCRY in 1996.

Is 4960 the first steam engine converted to burn vegtable oil? I thought that UP's engines and/or CP 2816 were converted to do this as well. Also, I believe a Mt. Washington Cog Railway engine got this conversion. Am I right at all on this?

 

[picture]

Sorry, but I got to correct you on this. The 4960 was built as a coal burner, and remained configured that way until its rebuild at GCRY in 1996.

Is 4960 the first steam engine converted to burn vegtable oil? I thought that UP's engines and/or CP 2816 were converted to do this as well. Also, I believe a Mt. Washington Cog Railway engine got this conversion. Am I right at all on this?

I'm not sure which was the first to burn vegi oil but the Disneyland / Disney World Railroads burn vegi oil as well.

 

[dpfan1]

did the grand canyon railway had a photo shoot with the 4960?

 

[dpfan1]

i wonder how the cooking oil is heated in the 4960 firebox?

 

[dpfan1]

The 4960 will make a run to the grand canyon in september. (information from railfan&railroad magizine)

 

[K4driver]

i wonder how the cooking oil is heated in the 4960 firebox?

It's basically the same as a regular Oil burning steam locomotive. the boiler is modified to handle oil instead of coal

 

[dpfan1]

to settle the difference between GCRY 4960 and STRASBURG 90. I PRESENT TWO PHOTOS OF THE TWO STEAM LOCOMOTIVES.

 

[K4driver]

Noob, THIS WAS DEAD WHY DIDN'T YOU LET IT DIE?!?!?!?!?!? NOW LET IT DIE!

 

[dpfan1]

when was the 4960 purchased by Grand canyon railroad?

 

[Sampug394]

when was the 4960 purchased by Grand canyon railroad?

Look it up.