The local tourist railway that runs through my back yard deliberately burns
lower grade coal to get a good plume for the punters. We're on a slight uphill
section for downline and so the outbound services put out a fair amount of smut
and cinder. It's a source of some annoyance, especially in the bushfire season.
There have been words exchanged.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.soultheft.com
Author/Publisher: The SLR Compendium - http://www.blurb.com/books/3732813
On 12/07/2013, at 3:18 AM, Paul Braun wrote:
>
> 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.
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