RE: [CBQ] What's The Hostler Doing? [2 Attachments]

["Phil pawnbaw@sbcglobal.net [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

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Pumping fresh air into the cab?

Or……maybe filling the sandbox on the tender.  Oil burning locomotives carried a supply of sand

up front on the tender.  The fireman had a small scoop sized to fit a hole in the firedoor and - when

the locomotive was working hard and pulling a strong draft- he’d toss some sand into the firebox.

The sand scoured the oil soot off of the flue tubes and produced a puff of black smoke out the stack.

You’ll see this in videos of oil burners – as the engineer works the locomotive harder the fireman gets

a couple of scoops of sand into the mix – and there will be a puff or two of black smoke.  

Coal burners didn’t have a soot problem when working. Cinders and assorted real estate kept the flues

clear.  However, a coal-burner could get pretty dirty inside when parked for a while. Then the first move

would produce black rain out the stack that was as permanent as India ink.

PAW

 

 

From: LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ]
Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2016 3:32 PM
To: cbq@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CBQ] What's The Hostler Doing? [1 Attachment]

 

 

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April 10, 2016

 

Group - This is a little "test" to see how many old timers from Lines West will remember what the hostler is doing a top the tender in this undated image of oil-burning CB&Q Class S-4-A 4003 being serviced at Lincoln, NE. I'm both inserting and attaching this interesting image:

 

 

What the hostler is doing was once so common place on Lines West oil-burning locomotives that it was seldom if ever photographed. In fact, this is the first image I've ever seen that shows such a service function. The image was taken well prior to November 1960 when 4003 was sold for scrap. Best Regards - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL     

 

 

 

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