[CBQ] Re: Water Cooled Journal Box Bearings

["dieselpop1" <dieselpop1@msn.com>]

Bibel's definitive book on train wreck forensics definitely states that water 
was used to cool hotboxes.
W. D. Hoy

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, LZadnichek@... wrote:
>
> There has been some prior discussion on whether or not the Q used water to  
> cool overheated journal box bearings on locomotive tenders, if or if not 
> such a  practice was effective and the existence of photographs that would 
> prove such an  application actually took place. The following link shows such 
> an  application to the tender of O1a No. 4994 at the time it was built in  
> 1923 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works:
>  
> http://leadfoot.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2779323
>  
> I'd like to hear from some of the other "old timers" on this List who  
> actually repacked hot boxes on friction journal bearing cars to hear their  
> comments on if adding water to oil to cool such a hot box would actually  
> work, 
> or if the water would damage the axle seal and make a bad situation  worse. 
> Lastly, can any one explain the large apron between the tender  tank and 
> drawbar? Were the tenders designed to have their water capacity  expanded 
> during heavy repairs at some later date? Certainly looks unusual.
>  
> Louis Zadnichek II
> Fairhope, AL
>




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