http://www.trains.com/trn/default.aspx?c=a&id=7020
Do crews get to salvage any meat in these cases? Unlike the old days of steam locos, I suppose there aren’t many opportunities to cook meat along the way ; )
I don’t know about salvaging any meat, but in the last days of the Chicago to Peoria passenger train, the engine crew would cook supper on top of part of the prime mover. Paul North may be able to give us more detail.
A few years back, I received an e-mail that included a How-to guide to cooking on diesel locomotives. It was complete with pictures, and showed the best ways and places to cook different items. It even had a few recipes. I thought I had saved it but I can’t find it now.
The easiest thing is to use the side-wall auxilary cab heaters, if the engine is equipped. Some aren’t. Cans of soup or spaghetti, etc can be heated, as can items wrapped in tin foil. (Generally, GE side-walls are better than EMD side-walls.)
At least one of UP’s service units has banned using the side-wall heaters for cooking. It seems someone left a can of soup on too long. When he popped the top, the contents boiled out and the person was burned by it. (We’ll be in big trouble if someone gets a bad paper cut from toilet paper, they’ld probably take that away too.)
The Canadian roads have some of their engines equipped with hot plates and/or microwaves.
Jeff
I hope this doesn’t start another one of those debates!
Well, GE is known for making toasters…
Setting the soup can on the air compressor works well. Otherwise the sidewalls get a lot of use. Canned goods, stuff wrapped in tinfoil.
It is my understanding that the meat gets bruised up too bad for consumption.
This sounds like a nanny who does not want to teach how to do it properly, but simply says,“Somebody was careless and got hurt, so you are not to attempt this.”
One railway legend thats been around since the Fifties is that a crew put a can of beans up by the exhuast manifold on a Diesel and then forgot it.
BANG! It exploded, leaving a big mess above the engine.
Thank You.
Kootenay Central is surely right. In RVN [during that unpleasantness ]; we would use the hot truck engines to cook C Rations while running convoys, I have vivid memories of having to clean up a mess under a hood from a couple of cans of Ham & Limas that had been forgotten, overcooked, and burst during a period of some excitement. I guess if Servicemen can figure out ways to have hot food on the job, certainly, enterprising railroaders can do the same.
In the 50’ and 60’s we frequently rode ore trains in Wyomong and Minnisota.in suppot of air brake work, It was quite common for a Bull Moose to charge the locomotive head-on with disastrous reslts for the moose. As I recall, the crew had to notify the appropriate authority which would take care of the carcas. The crew was then permitted to bid on the hindquarters, which would be all that was left.The price was right and everbodies freezer usually had Moose Steaks. There was lots oof antelope and some elk but they were smarter than the moose and had to be hunted.
I had the chance to ride the power on a Z-CHCSTP (BNSF Cicero (Chicago) to St Paul, MN trailer train a few years ago. In the area north of Savannah, IL, along the Mississippi River, I was just amazed at the number of dead deer along the tracks. Pretty bad all the way up to E. Dubuque. Train vs. whitetail deer left few questions around who always wins.
Years ago when I was working out of des Moines we were coming south on the Spine line , Just south Garden City we saw about six cows on the traks, All of them got out of the way expect one and when we hit her she landed on the front deck of the SD40-2, We keep going and when we reached Des Noines The looks we got going across crossings with this dead cow on the front deck were great. The MICs in Des Moines were not impressed with us at all
“The MICs in Des Moines were not impressed with us at all”
-LOL…you should’ve disected and started cooking the tender parts…which would be most of the thing…of course they were not impressed. They were left hungry!