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Re: [OM] Steam trains running this summer

Subject: Re: [OM] Steam trains running this summer
From: Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 12:18:32 -0500
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I did just that - get multiple vantage points - when returning up here from
> "down south" five years ago. I hadn't intended to, and didn't know what all
> th tripods were for as we came north, but the blast of steam from under a
> bridge soon put me right. There were freqent stops after that. All these
> were taken within about an hour, despite the variety of weather on show:
>
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=7063
>
> For the cognoscenti it's a Stanier Black Five 4-6-0 leading a Gresley A4
> Pacific.  I suspect the driver of one was ex-Navy, as the command "Make
> Smoke!" comes to mind.
>

The funny thing is that the photographer-friendly plume of smoke and steam
is really the by-product of a poorly-running engine... when things are
burning properly and cleanly, you barely see anything coming out of the
stack.  They just pump extra steam into the smokebox so you get a heavy,
opaque mixture of steam, exhaust and ash that looks pretty for photos, but
is terribly inefficient.
-- 

Paul Braun  WD9GCO
Music Junkie

"Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Harlan Howard
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