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I have no personal memories of this, but I have seen (photos...not personally) and heard that the oil cistern on oil burners was "pressurized" a bit to help the oil flow. It wasn't..and couldn't have been much pressure, but just a bit would move the oil quite well. There, was, of course, a relief valve which had to be opened, before the filler cap was removed...If someone would forget this little maneuver, it could create a bit of a mess. Anybody more familiar with oil burners than me, please add or subtract to my "ramblings.
Pete
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From: 'Patrick Homan' homanfamily@fuse.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thu, Apr 14, 2016 6:49 pm Subject: Re: [CBQ] What's The Hostler Doing? I find this discussion very interesting, escially the photo of 4003.
I did enlarge the picture and it appears that the sand box had a rounded shape
to the cab side. I can’t get my computer to give a clear image when
enlarged. Does any member have a photo of the top of the oil cistern,
showing the oil and sand covers as well as any other details particular to large
oil burners. My background is coal fired locomotives here in Cinciinnati
or in Southeastern KY (L&N). I am trying to build an accurate cistern
to put in a Bachmann locomotive. My only photos are a set I was able to
take of FW&D #305 in wichita Falls TX. The museum staff that day was
most gracious in letting my climb over the locomotive and tender. II
suspect the large locomotives had a bit different set-up.
Pat Homan
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2016 8:09 PM
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Pete and Phil - You both get a "gold star" in correctly identifying the
Lincoln roundhouse hostler as pouring sand into the tender sand box for use in
cleaning flues. Since I do not have any gold stars handy, you get a bonus
undated color image of 4003 in dead storage at Lincoln, NE, probably never to
run again. I've both inserted and attached the image. In the attached image, if
you enlarge it, I think you can just see the sand box to the left in entrance of
the gangway.
All Q oil burning steam locomotives had such tender sand boxes, so modelers
can feel free to make two stops under their sand tower, one for the sand dome on
the locomotive and one for the sand box in the tender. One question I have, how
much sand would the tender sand box on the 4003 hold? Would there have been
enough sand to fill a 55 gal. drum, more, less?
To answer Pete's question about a light mounted on the top backside of the
stack so the fireman could judge his fire by the darkness of the smoke at night,
to my knowledge such a device was never used on Q, C&S or FW&D
oil-burning locomotives. However, it was used widely on Frisco and MOPAC steam
locomotives, among other railroads that used Bunker C oil for fuel.
Since oil-burning locomotives could have their fires "turned off" between
runs rather than having their fires banked like on their coal-burning siblings,
some Q oil-burners had a round stack flap fitted on a hinge that the fireman
could flop over the open stack to keep as much heat in the boiler as possible
until the locomotive was needed later. This seems to have been a roundhouse
added device as some oil-burners had the stack flap and others didn't.
Anyone else with Lines West oil-burner stories or comments is welcome to
chime-in! Best Regards - Louis
Louis Zadnichek II
Fairhope, AL
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