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1. [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Leo Phillipp via Groups.Io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 19:50:18 -0600; Sometime in the late 60s I was driving across Farnsworth Ave in Aurora and found a Q hopper load of coal sitting just east of the xing on the Industrial lead. It had smoke coming out of it while an A; /archives/BRHSLIST/2018-12/msg00172.html (9,172 bytes)
2. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Ken Vandevoort via Groups.Io" <apo09324=yahoo.com@groups.io>; Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:30:24 -0800; The Cargill corn wet milling plant in Eddyville, Iowa used to have a coal pile in Fort Madison, Iowa back in the 1980's. My wife was a Cargill employee and she informed me that the large pile was con; /archives/BRHSLIST/2018-12/msg00173.html (9,657 bytes)
3. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@gwtc.net>; Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 06:15:56 -0800; 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 _._,_._,_ Groups.i; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00000.html (10,328 bytes)
4. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "William Barber" <clipperw@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 09:38:58 -0600; Leo, I dont 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; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00002.html (10,976 bytes)
5. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Leo Phillipp via Groups.Io" <qutlx1=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 10:06:25 -0600; 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. Im wondering if; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00003.html (12,353 bytes)
6. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Thomas Quimby via Groups.Io" <thomas_quimby=yahoo.com@groups.io>; Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 19:09:04 +0000 (UTC); 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 D; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00006.html (11,973 bytes)
7. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Louis Zadnichek via Groups.Io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>; Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 19:20:11 +0000 (UTC); 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 wr; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00007.html (13,332 bytes)
8. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "mikethomasson24" <mthomasson@austin.rr.com>; Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 13:51:08 -0600; 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; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00008.html (13,943 bytes)
9. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "John Trulson" <norskeviking@msn.com>; Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 20:28:26 +0000; 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. -- O; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00009.html (16,344 bytes)
10. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Philip Weibler" <pawnbaw@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 13:59:33 -0800; Hello Leo and All - About a quarter century ago I was working for the other premier railroad in the Midwest when a coal train took a direct hit from a bolt of liightning. The blast blew most of the c; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00010.html (12,307 bytes)
11. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Steven Holding" <sholding@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 22:27:34 +0000 (UTC); Coal by its nature is organic and just like the bailed up corn stocks in the fall or raked up leaves will build up organic heat given enough heat and you have FIRE I use to pick up bagged leaves in t; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00011.html (15,719 bytes)
12. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2019 17:12:14 -0600; All- CB&Q was a big user of Lignite as well. I wonder if the two Wooten camelback D1 Consolidations predated the Qs use of that fuel and if they would have been successful using it..although there; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00012.html (12,301 bytes)
13. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Denny Anspach" <danspachmd@gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 09:31:30 -0500; Could the CB&Qs locomotives designed and built to burn lignite also burn regular bituminous soft coal equally well? Wooten firebox Mother Hubbard locomotives: I have often shared the very same questi; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00014.html (12,563 bytes)
14. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "HOL WAGNER" <holpennywagner@msn.com>; Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 20:51:30 +0000; Denny: Burlington locomotives equipped to burn lignite were outfitted with special firebox grates that were substantially different than those for bituminous coal. Additionally, lignite-burners were; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00015.html (15,656 bytes)
15. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 15:38:10 -0600; _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#56505) | Reply To Group Mute This Topic Your Subscription | Contact Group Owner | Unsubscribe [archives@nau; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00017.html (15,517 bytes)
16. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Rupert Gamlen" <gamlenz@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 22:10:13 +0000; Denny Does the article refer to the Burlingtons two locomotives or show any 2-8-0s? Ive attached a image that Charlie created showing what they may have looked like with standard Burlington design pi; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00018.html (16,053 bytes)
17. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Larry and/or Donna Graus" <lagraus@charter.net>; Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:12:40 -0500; PRB coal is high in moisture. When it sits for a long time in an uncompacted state, it can spontaneously combust. I used to work for one of the co-owners of Plant Scherer. Tracked dozers were used to; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00026.html (12,956 bytes)
18. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "Larry and/or Donna Graus" <lagraus@charter.net>; Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:14:54 -0500; Forgot to add that a cigarette is quite unlikely to set coal on fire. It takes a lot of heat to ignite it. Leo, I dont think that spontaneous combustion was very common it hoppers, but it certainly w; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00027.html (12,352 bytes)
19. Re: [CBQ] Coal fires in cars ? (score: 1): Author: "John Mitchell via Groups.Io" <icrr1680=yahoo.com@groups.io>; Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 20:15:00 +0000 (UTC); _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#56575) | Reply To Group Mute This Topic Your Subscription | Contact Group Owner | Unsubscribe [archives@nau; /archives/BRHSLIST/2019-01/msg00087.html (14,581 bytes)

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