Impressive, Piers. It sure does scatter the sheep.
Charlie
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You maybe need to know that the train is approaching the highest point on
> the British railway system, altitude 1480 feet, so the extra steam being
> pumped into the smokebox may not be just for appearance's sake! A gradient
> profile of the section just north shows gradients of 1:60:
> <http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/map_zoom.jsp?item_id=43880&zoom=3>
>
> And keep in mind that both locomotives are 70-75 years old! If you want to
> compare with a better-condition locomotive, take a look at this newly-built
> beauty on the same line: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhlYBR91igo>
>
> The first half of the clip includes the portions of the line in my images,
> while the run down to the brick viaduct towards the end of the clip is at
> 1:60 gradient. Not much steam to be seen there!
>
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Braun [mailto:pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 11 July 2013 18:19
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] Steam trains running this summer
>
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I did just that - get multiple vantage points - when returning up here
> > from "down south" five years ago. I hadn't intended to, and didn't
> > know what all th tripods were for as we came north, but the blast of
> > steam from under a bridge soon put me right. There were freqent stops
> > after that. All these were taken within about an hour, despite the
> variety
> of weather on show:
> >
> > http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=7063
> >
> > For the cognoscenti it's a Stanier Black Five 4-6-0 leading a Gresley
> > A4 Pacific. I suspect the driver of one was ex-Navy, as the command
> > "Make Smoke!" comes to mind.
> >
>
> The funny thing is that the photographer-friendly plume of smoke and steam
> is really the by-product of a poorly-running engine... when things are
> burning properly and cleanly, you barely see anything coming out of the
> stack. They just pump extra steam into the smokebox so you get a heavy,
> opaque mixture of steam, exhaust and ash that looks pretty for photos, but
> is terribly inefficient.
> --
>
> Paul Braun WD9GCO
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