Bill and others,
Yes, My main thought in the question is that with the fairly well agreed point
that sparks from steam loco exhaust started many ROW and even some farm fields
on fire. I’m wondering if fires occurred in coal loads from this source.
I have those pictures from BB35 and Corbin’s book of long strings of wood
“flats” full of So. IL coal behind a hard working loco. In mind.
Leo
> On Jan 1, 2019, at 9:38 AM, William Barber <clipperw@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Leo,
>
> I don’t think that spontaneous combustion was very common it hoppers, but it
> certainly was a concern with large piles of stored coal. I believe it is the
> weight of the coal on the portion oat the bottom that tends to ignite. The
> EMD plant in McCook always had a large coal pile in the back part of the
> plant which was used for heating purposes. They had a bulldozer assigned to
> the coal pile to continuously turn it over to prevent such fires. The day
> that the Titanic started it fateful voyage, there was a fire in one of the
> coal bunkers that they were battling. This was not an uncommon experience on
> coal fired ships. I think that, because there is not enough weight in the
> coal in a hopper car, fires were probably not very common. Of course, the
> fire could have started from an external source such as a cast off cigarette
> from a passing train. John Mitchell might have more comments of such
> occurrences.
>
> Bill Barber
> Gravois Mills, MO
>
>
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