Behold the sight
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Behold the sight
...of every hybrid vehicle on the planet being rendered irrelevant.
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Pretty sure I've posted before, but it never fails to impress.
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Pretty sure I've posted before, but it never fails to impress.
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Re: Behold the sight
Oh My Gosh! I've seen steam locomotives put out way lees smoke! (I'm big on Steam Engines [emoji2] ).
With flames like that, how that thing not catch fire and burn to the tracks!
With flames like that, how that thing not catch fire and burn to the tracks!
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Re: Behold the sight
They must use old tires for fuel...
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Re: Behold the sight
It burns tree hugger tears.JFL Live wrote:They must use old tires for fuel...
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Re: Behold the sight
You need to watch this. The Chinese work these tired old steam engines non-stop in the iron pits...very skilled operators, this is steep grade and very slick rails. Listen for the wheelslip [emoji106]Designer wrote:Oh My Gosh! I've seen steam locomotives put out way lees smoke! (I'm big on Steam Engines [emoji2] ).
With flames like that, how that thing not catch fire and burn to the tracks!
The steam/smoke blow is beautiful in the low light. Imagine how much potential power is going up outta the stack there?
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Re: Behold the sight
I spent a couple of weeks in Japan in the late 1960s. Rode a train from Tokyo to Aomori in northern Japan pulled by an old steam locomotive belching black smoke. It was memorable and felt like going back in time to the old American west. There were 3 passenger cars loaded with folks in the seats and sleeping on the floor. The seats were hard wood benches and very uncomfortable.
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Re: Behold the sight
Incredible!
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Re: Behold the sight
When climbing with a full load of Freight I can see how that can happen. Alot more weight than passenger cars for sure! There is only so much of a uphill grade any engine can pull up..steel-to-steel isn't much for traction.jeffcoslacker wrote:You need to watch this. The Chinese work these tired old steam engines non-stop in the iron pits...very skilled operators, this is steep grade and very slick rails. Listen for the wheelslip [emoji106]Designer wrote:Oh My Gosh! I've seen steam locomotives put out way lees smoke! (I'm big on Steam Engines [emoji2] ).
With flames like that, how that thing not catch fire and burn to the tracks!
The steam/smoke blow is beautiful in the low light. Imagine how much potential power is going up outta the stack there?
Take a look at this video at the 3:50 mark. This Steam Engine puts out way less smoke at the same speed as that Russian diesel. There must be something outta whack if a diesel engine puts out flames like that one did!
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=video+steam+e ... PXgGnKhEdQ
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Re: Behold the sight
Yeah that old diesel loco is running hella rich, either an injector/pump timing problem or if its a blower-type there's an air induction problem. Johnnycando would probably know, he's an engineer.Designer wrote:When climbing with a full load of Freight I can see how that can happen. Alot more weight than passenger cars for sure! There is only so much of a uphill grade any engine can pull up..steel-to-steel isn't much for traction.jeffcoslacker wrote:You need to watch this. The Chinese work these tired old steam engines non-stop in the iron pits...very skilled operators, this is steep grade and very slick rails. Listen for the wheelslip [emoji106]Designer wrote:Oh My Gosh! I've seen steam locomotives put out way lees smoke! (I'm big on Steam Engines [emoji2] ).
With flames like that, how that thing not catch fire and burn to the tracks!
The steam/smoke blow is beautiful in the low light. Imagine how much potential power is going up outta the stack there?
Take a look at this video at the 3:50 mark. This Steam Engine puts out way less smoke at the same speed as that Russian diesel. There must be something outta whack if a diesel engine puts out flames like that one did!
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=video+steam+e ... PXgGnKhEdQ
Anyway that's so much raw fuel piling up in the manifold it can't even get turned into choking soot...just flares off in the stack.
Take a look sometime at the old Smokin' ALCOs still running in regular service in India.
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Re: Behold the sight
That wheel slip make it sound like it had a rod a knocking. I'd be afraid all those embers would set that coal in those cars on fire.
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Re: Behold the sight
The sounds of the approaching steam engine reminds me of the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"......Who are those guys?
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Re: Behold the sight
Iron ore in those cars. They're safe.BlacktopTravelr wrote:That wheel slip make it sound like it had a rod a knocking. I'd be afraid all that embers would set that coal in those cars on fire.
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KAJUN wrote:The sounds of the approaching steam engine reminds me of the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"......Who are those guys?
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I just went by the clip title saying it was a coal mine railway.jeffcoslacker wrote:Iron ore in those cars. They're safe.BlacktopTravelr wrote:That wheel slip make it sound like it had a rod a knocking. I'd be afraid all those embers would set that coal in those cars on fire.
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JFL Live wrote:KAJUN wrote:The sounds of the approaching steam engine reminds me of the movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"......Who are those guys?
Butch Cassidy: Well, that ought to do it.
[after blowing the train car to smithereens]
Sundance Kid: Think ya used enough dynamite there, Butch?
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