Not sure where the Division point was. May have been McCook for west of there
since engines were changed there. The visible features for a lignite burner
are the extended smokebox and a small yellow square on the top rear of the
coal bunker (not easy to see in many photographs).
Gene
Denny Anspach wrote:
> Friends, a number of CB&Q steam locomotives were originally
> constructed for, or were converted later to use specifically either
> Bituminous coal (Illinois), or Lignite (Wyoming?). As I understand
> it, Hastings NE was the dividing point in this regard.
>
> Now, just exactly were the specific differences between locomotives
> equipped to burn one or the other? I do note in Corbin's book that
> some locomotives have the appearance of really marked smoke box
> extensions, while others of the same class do not- with no
> explanation.
>
> One caption mentions that the bulging smoke box was to provide a
> much bigger chamber for unconsumed lignite particles to burn out
> before being pushed out the stack. Is this bulging smoke box one of
> the features exclusive to lignite, and in this regard, some, or all?
> Would an order for new locomotives X number for bituminous, and Y for
> lignite then come from the manufacturer with these respective and
> distinctive smokebox differences?
>
> Denny
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> Denny S. Anspach, MD
> Sacramento, CA
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