How about this theory......The report is dated August, 1933...hot dry
month also in a year of little rain(?). Going with the dust and wood
crossing angle, sprinkling the crossing helps prevent a fire after
the passing of the engine (said engine dropping hot ashes/clinkers
from ashpan due to train movement)...How does that sound?
Greg K.
Minn.
--- In BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com, PSHedgpeth@a... wrote:
> This morning while wasting time reading old ICC wreck reports I
came across
> something that I have never before heard of
>
> This incident August 9, 1933 involved the derailment of CB&Q No.
9...Was this
> THE ARISTOCRAT?? at Mosely CO. The train was "hauled" by engine
3007.
>
> As a part of the evidence summary a portion of the fireman's
statement was
> that as the train approached the point of derailment he had just
opened a valve
> on the tender which was used to release water to sprinkle
crossings, after he
> opened the valve he turned around to check to see if the water was
> running.....
>
> Now the valve and resultant sprinkling had nothing to do with the
derailment
> which was caused by a defective bridal rod in a facing point
switch, but it
> brought to me something of which I had never heard in my many years
of being
> around railroads...
>
> How about it you steam engine historians.....Let's have comments.
>
> Pete
>
>
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