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Two old timers with fine alert minds got it right. Pete
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From: Phil pawnbaw@sbcglobal.net [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> To: LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>; cbq <cbq@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sun, Apr 10, 2016 4:45 pm Subject: RE: [CBQ] What's The Hostler Doing? [2 Attachments]
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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] [Attachment(s) from LZadnichek@aol.com included below]
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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