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[Fred W. Schneider III]

There was also smoky coal.

At Strasburg, we always burned crap out of the mines in Clearfield County,
Pennsylvania.  Atrocious.  Smokeless, heatless coal.  Well, in the 1960s they
took engine 90 on a trip to Wilkes-Barre and back.  Our shop manager was
chiding us about how the CNJ fireman knew how to fire ... over the mountains
with a dead engine behind him and 16 coaches while spending most of his time
sitting on the seat box.  A month or so later, or daily coal truck didn't
arrive and I got back far enough in the tender to find out what he had it so
bloomin easy.  Wonderful Pocohontos coal from West Virginia ... smoky but it
had twice the BTUs per ton as anything I was used to.  It took me a trip to
get used to firing light enough to keep the sucker from popping off!

brathke at juno.com wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 09:56:01 -0400 "Fred W. Schneider III"
> <fschnei at supernet.com> writes:
>
> That was a nice picture of locomotive smoke ... it was obviously a
> fantrip. The P&LE cars are all in Green 1960s New
> York Central paint. Was the smoke made for the fans?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> I took the Clairton photo
> (http://gelwood.railfan.net/other/gtw/gtw-s4070ar.jpg) in September,
> 1975.  The train was a Pittsburgh-Brownsville fantrip using ex-GTW 2-8-2
> 4070.  It was the end of the day, and the train was hurrying back to
> Pittsburgh.  This was not a photo run-by.  I was on a hill overlooking
> the river, some distance from the tracks.  I think I was the only person
> there, and I doubt if the engineer saw me and decided to make some smoke.
>  (By the way, all those P&LE green boxcars were out of service, and the
> railroad found it convenient to store them on passing sidings during an
> economic downturn.)
>
> The 4070 was simply a smoky engine.  See the photo I took of it earlier
> in the day as it crossed the Monongahela River southbound from Homestead
> (note the diesel switching ingot cars in the U.S. Steel mill). I took
> this photo from a hill in Rankin across the river, so the engineer wasn't
> making the smoke for my benefit.  See
> <http://gelwood.railfan.net/other/gtw/gtw-s4070w.jpg>.
>
> I guess I'd better bring this e-mail back to Pittsburgh trolleys.  See
> <http://gelwood.railfan.net/other/gtw/gtw-s4070t.jpg> for a photo of the
> 4070 leaving the P&LE station in Pittsburgh.
> This time a PAT 1700 (the Burger King car) is about to get a whif of
> smoke.
>
> Bob 7/4
>
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