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From: | "'John D. Mitchell, Jr.' cbqrr47@yahoo.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> |
Date: | Wed, 4 Feb 2015 19:40:52 +0000 (UTC) |
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Another L&B equipped engine, that spent the last ten years or so, on the Beardstown Division, was 4976, which was one of the last five active steam engines at Herrin Junction. From: "LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [CBQ] What's Wrong With 5030? [2 Attachments] February 4, 2015
Hol, Jonathan, Charlie and other Group members who participated in
this discussion - Well, again, Hol has nailed it. What was "wrong," or perhaps
"unusual" with 5030 to me, was its conventional smoke box with the lignite
marker on the tender's coal bunker. I personally wasn't aware that by changing
grates an O-1 could be converted to burning lignite (okay, sub-bituminous
coal). I had thought it also required an L&B front end.
My Dad had some limited experience with lignite burners during his
time as a transportation inspector and train master on Lines West in the early
1950s. Dad said they steamed best with a very light fire on the grates
and that the engineer had to be careful in adjusting the Johnson bar. If
the engineer worked the locomotive too hard, the forced exhaust would
literally lift the burning coal up off the grates, through the flues and out the
stack in a fiery display. For that reason, I'm particularly surprised that the
5030 was being used as a switcher in the Denver yards without a L&B
front end with all its internal baffling/netting to prevent hot ashes and
cinders from blowing out of the stack. You'd think the danger from fire
in the yards and adjacent industrialized areas would've precluded a lignite
burner without a L&B front end. In later years, locomotives fitted with a
L&B front end wandered across the system and even into southern Illinois,
about as far from the Colorado sub-bituminous coal mines as you could get.
I'm inserting/attaching two views of L&B equipped Class O-1-A 5144 taken at
Centralia, IL, where the locomotive finished-up its service life:
Pulled from their cozy stalls, 5144 and a Class M-4-A sit in the cold
outside the Centralia, IL, roundhouse in March 1958 awaiting a call
back to service that probably never came. Since both locomotives' stacks are
covered with cylinder head covers, that would indicate they were at the time
stored serviceable.
A little over two years later in the early summer of 1961, 5144 has been
assembled with other remaining steam power at Centralia into a funeral train for
movement north to Galesburg, IL. The Corbin book records that 5144 was
sold for scrap in June 1961, no doubt to Northwestern Steel & Wire
at Sterling, IL.
Hol, thanks for answering all my questions and enlightening our Group on
lignite burners and their L&B front ends. Perhaps, this, too, would make for
a good subject in a future BRHS publication. Yes, yes, please continue sharing
your images and knowledge. I'd be particularly interested in FW&D
locomotives of which, at least for me, has been a dark hole for steam images and
stories. Best Regards - Louis
In a message dated 2/4/2015 12:16:17 P.M. Central Standard Time,
CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:
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