Lighting the fire
- Thread starter nysvrwx
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Pretty much same as charcoal, use lighter fluid or paper and kindling wood to get it going. I worked at Kiddieland years ago, and this thing;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUuhUnlfXkU
We used a rigged up pipe and hose connected to a natural gas line with burners sticking out, shoved that into the firebox to get the coal started and it took about 4 hours from cold iron to get steam up. The loco by itself empty weighed 4000 pounds, boiler held 75 gallons of water. Going by that I would guess it takes a lot longer to get steam up in a real loco.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUuhUnlfXkU
We used a rigged up pipe and hose connected to a natural gas line with burners sticking out, shoved that into the firebox to get the coal started and it took about 4 hours from cold iron to get steam up. The loco by itself empty weighed 4000 pounds, boiler held 75 gallons of water. Going by that I would guess it takes a lot longer to get steam up in a real loco.
check on how to light fire on steam loco at http://www.sdrm.org/faqs/hostling.html enjoy to read !!!!
John
John
That was an excellent read! Thanks. Thanks also to other repliers as well. I had no idea it was such a project.
