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Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ?

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Forgot to add that a cigarette is quite unlikely to set coal on fire. It takes 
a lot of heat to ignite it.

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From: CBQ@groups.io [mailto:CBQ@groups.io] On Behalf Of William Barber
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2019 10:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ?

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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