Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ?

["mikethomasson24" <mthomasson@austin.rr.com>]

The reason that lignite, a lower grade of coal, is used almost exclusively in mine -mouth power plants is that it will spontaneous combust if transported more than a few miles in an open rail car or truck. Some logging railroads used it for awhile, but it was not suitable even for that limited application. 

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From: "Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io> 
Date: 01/01/2019  1:20 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: CBQ@groups.io 
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ?

January 1, 2019

Tom - Spontaneous combustion!  Happy New Year - Louis

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

In a message dated 1/1/2019 1:09:10 PM Central Standard Time, thomas_quimby=yahoo.com@groups.io writes:

What caused these fires?  Keep in mind I deleted a few of these messages without reading them so if this was already answered I missed it.  Thank you

On Tuesday, January 1, 2019, 6:15:59 AM PST, Mike Decker <mdecker@gwtc.net> wrote:

While I was working, I saw several cars of PRB coal siting in sidings smoking away.  Sometimes, the fire would heat up the car side enough that you could see the discoloration.

Mike

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