in arlington vermont a train set a small brush fire that burned an area 300 yds by 100 yds dont know the exact details but saw it with the help of a friend and his always having a camera ready. that what no rain will get ya, burnin!!!
Here in Maryland a train caused 20 acres to burn just last week.
I bet it was UP.
how would I model this?
Squirt lighter fluid on the layout and throw a lit match and grab your camera.
Does the UP run through Vermont often these days?
Please explain your reasoning.
Wayne
Sarcasm my good man, sarcasm.
Who knows, at the rate Uncle Petes going we might see them in vermont one day
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That’s no news at all–SP hotboxes used to cause brush fires on their Donner Pass line all the time. When I worked for the Forest Service in Truckee during the summers, about a third of the fires we were called out on were caused by overheating brake shoes. Luckily they were all small ones, and SP had its own fire train to send out to help us put them out. Part of life along the railroad tracks, fellows.
Tom [:D]
I imagine that back in the days when nothing but steamers were used, there were trackside fires all the time during the dry summers.
Before the State stepped in in the early 1900’s and regulated the fuels burned by locomotives, it was not uncommon to have fires burn hundreds of thousands of acres of forests here in the Adirondacks in a single fire season.
Fires were pretty much business as usual along the D&H & the NY Central lines until conversion to oil & some regulation of logging practices, such as clearing slash along the ROW was instituted.
Trains are pretty gentle today, by comparison.
Wayne
Reminds me of a picture in one of the Pennsy Power books. There is a smoldering fire on the side of the tracks, and a 0-6-0 nearby. The picture shows a blast of water coming about waist high from the cab of the locomotive to the fire.
The caption - “I’m Impressed!”
iam not quite if up runs that line ive seen up going through hoosic ny heading towards north adams ma.alot of coal cars.