Oh yes … while we are all here, credit where credit is due:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/savatheaggie/sets/72157622117983557/
Yeah but… can you build one out of Gummies, Wine Gums and Licorice ( liquorice ) All Sorts?
That way you could agonize for hours wether to admire it or eat it.
Those things are for Canadian prototypes. We’d make a mold and hollow-cast the thing in Hershey’s. (Or solid-cast it, like Katherine Mosby’s nemesis, the 62-pound Critchley’s milk-chocolate Easter bunny, but that’s another tale…)
I had a good time several years ago making an AMD-103 out of appropriately iced gingerbread and candy castings. It’s surprising how good the result looks. Or perhaps how well slightly curved baked gingerbread sheets re-create the Genesis lines…
Well you could make a pretty nifty T1 out of this.
However I suppose a CPR K1 or Royal Hudson would do.
My .02
I’m going to say it’s more likely at a ready track. The lights above the T1 don’t look correct for the Baker St Station platform lights. (of course, by the time I got to look around, they could have been long gone.)
Another possibility, it could be at the shops. Fort Wayne, at one time, had 10,000 PRR employees. Most were at a locomotive shop and car shops just east of the passenger station along with the usual track and train crews. (Alas, these were torn down to build the new post office)
Found this picture of a K4 leading a doubleheader with a T1 trailing. Makes sense owing to the T1 frequent slipping. Bet a lot of smoke and soot got through the cab ventilators though.
Thank you for sharing, Miningman! A 10000hp combination! The T1 would be even dirtier than normal…we can’t even see the lettering on both tenders.
You know it’s going to be a fun day when the coal in the tender is visibly whiter than either of your locomotives…
Engineer on the T1, though, is as white as Casper the Friendly Ghost. Must be right at the start of the run!
In addtion to purchasing coal of questionable quality, as the end of steam drew near the railroads tried to use up the last of the stockpiles they had already purchased. Some of that stuff had sat outside for years, and I have read accounts of Firemen finding chunks of clay and even small trees in the tender, no doubt as the bottom of the pile was being scraped up.
Coal oxidizes and can even spontaneously combust when stored in piles that are exposed to air, and such action can leave a white ashy sheen on the exterior of the pile. I’ve actually seen that in modern rotary-dump cars that have been loaded with smouldering stuff.
Not only I always want to investigate if there was any corruption happened regarding the purchases of bad quality coals during the transition era, I also want to know the health status of the train crews and residents who lived around the rail track, and the opinion of railfan and passenger during that time period.
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Notice the white ‘lime scale’ ahead of the operating cab on many of the engines pictured in the first half of the video. Looks like ‘bad’ water and/or improper chemical additives were being used at that time.
I read that “white scale” on the boiler jacketing around the safety valves usually resulted from someone getting a little too enthusiastic adding boiler water treatment chemicals.
Great shots of those T1’s! It doesn’t look like bad coal was an issue with the locomotives in the films, except maybe for the last one. All seem to be expertly fired with little or no smoke.
The ‘lime scale’ is normal. Look at the films of the 2-10-4s going to Sandusky if you really want a feel for the effect!
Anywhere boiler water goes, you will see these white stains forming just as stalactites/stalagmites do – the water evaporates and the TDS isn’t dissolved any more.
Same thing is happening on the track from the continuous blowdown; you just don’t see the deposits as ‘crusty’.
Of course, any little boiler or valve leaks and the crud can build up on seats and checks, which then weep and leak ‘wholesale’ leading to much more fun. Someone like Mike can provide us with a picture of this at TMI unit 2 before the ‘incident’ there…
Now, steam leaks, on the other side of the steam separation in the boiler, shouldn’t have more than incidental carryover, so you don’t see the effect at places like cylinder glands, and you really shouldn’t see it under safety valves except if high water is carried underneath them and priming and foaming take place together. Won’t be fun keeping steam up if you start to get liming in the relevant parts of the pop mechanism!