Northern Pacific burned lignite coal in their steam locomotives, and one report only fifty percent burned with the rest going out the stack or staying in the firebox until they dropped the fire.
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ?
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)
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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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