Hwange Colliery's No.10 (ex RR/NRZ Class 15A No. 392)is seen struggling upgrade from Thomson Junction towards the mine, with a rake of empty coal cars in June 1998.
Thanks for posting this video! I have visited the NRZ in 1993/94 with Super8-Movie and taking pictures in 6x6. The only thing I need while watching this video: one zambesi beer!
Yeah, boy. Proper working steam. Oh, to have seen that... I always think of the bloke who turns up to work every day, possibly complaining, about having to drive a 15A double-Hudson Garratt and get payed for it. Lucky sod!
Yes, loads of clag means overfiring, wastage and filth. Many here in the UK, the younger enthusiasts, seem to regard it as "great." There's no polite answer to that. It's interesting how the two halves of the loco get out of sync then back in again, showing the wheel tyres have worn at different rates or one set is newer than the other. Even on those small wheels the difference could easily be over 2 inches.
Lots of people complaining about the black smoke, poor fireman skills etc... But I read somewhere that these Garratts were notorious for this, since only the front end cylinders exit through the smoke stack (and thus helping with draft). So they need to burn for two locos worth but only get draft for one.
You know in the USA in the age of steam Norfolk and Western had ''Black Smoke is Waste" stenciled inside the cab of their locomotives and instructed photographers NOT to photograph one of their locomotives belching black smoke as it is evidence of incomplete combustion, or un-burnt coal.
REPLYING to buxton4472 Sorry for this late comment As a fireman we knew if you get black smoke you are putting the coal in the right place If the smoke is white you are putting the coal in upside down A steam engine gets fired with brains not muscle Nice video Thanks
Really great vid.Reminds me of my footplate trip on a 15th from Thomson Junc.to Vic Falls back in 1991.Also have happy memories of the Baobob Hotel. NRZ 15th class;sex on wheels!. Al.
Yes, early farmers used to clear land and burn the bush then return the ashes into the tilled soil to improve the quality. Steam locos also banned in dry conditions due to burning ash often blown into dry vegetation...big source of bushfires.
If this engine were running more efficiently there would be very little smoke and more carbon dioxide emissions. The efficiency of this locomotive is extremely poor because there is incomplete combustion plus sooting of the boiler tubes with resulting poor heat reclaimation from the fire - a complete waste of energy.
Yes however! How many steam locos are in daily use doing a 'proper' days work, like this old girl is doing hmmmm? Yet one says nought about dozens, nay, hundreds of mucky particulate spewing (unsilenced) diesels charging about China. Come to think of it there is an awful lot of 'China' in Africa at the moment. I’d love to know what’s doing the job now.
Possibly, but the steam engine is less efficient and so as far as CO2 emissions are concerned it is probably less 'green'. And that's an awful lot of respirable dust particles ending up in the atmosphere!!!
Thanks for posting this video! I have visited the NRZ in 1993/94 with Super8-Movie and taking pictures in 6x6.
The only thing I need while watching this video: one zambesi beer!
Yeah, boy. Proper working steam. Oh, to have seen that... I always think of the bloke who turns up to work every day, possibly complaining, about having to drive a 15A double-Hudson Garratt and get payed for it. Lucky sod!
Yes, loads of clag means overfiring, wastage and filth. Many here in the UK, the younger enthusiasts, seem to regard it as "great." There's no polite answer to that. It's interesting how the two halves of the loco get out of sync then back in again, showing the wheel tyres have worn at different rates or one set is newer than the other. Even on those small wheels the difference could easily be over 2 inches.
Rosie6857 poor maintenance,poor unskillful driving...
@@gbrown4796 - basic lack of know-how. We forget how an English driver came up through the ranks, starting as a cleaner?
Lots of people complaining about the black smoke, poor fireman skills etc...
But I read somewhere that these Garratts were notorious for this, since only the front end cylinders exit through the smoke stack (and thus helping with draft). So they need to burn for two locos worth but only get draft for one.
Not so........
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No this loco is more sustainable
WOW its literally like a living breathing machine!
You know in the USA in the age of steam Norfolk and Western had ''Black Smoke is Waste" stenciled inside the cab of their locomotives and instructed photographers NOT to photograph one of their locomotives belching black smoke as it is evidence of incomplete combustion, or un-burnt coal.
@buxton4472
Well all that soot will eventually settle or come down with the rain. Dust particles play a vital part in making rain believe it or not!
...preferably in the garden of the Baobab Hotel just a few km from TJ! Thanks for your comment.
REPLYING to buxton4472 Sorry for this late comment As a fireman we knew if you get black smoke you are putting the coal in the right place If the smoke is white you are putting the coal in upside down A steam engine gets fired with brains not muscle Nice video Thanks
Thank you
More benign on the environment than trucking anyday!
GAAAWWWD! That thing is working hard!
WOW! Just WOW!
Yes, but what poetry in motion and sound, and its got its own soul. Electrics and diesels do not, in my opinion.
Listen to that! Carbon footprint yes, but its way less harmful than what we do today.
Really great vid.Reminds me of my footplate trip on a 15th from Thomson Junc.to Vic Falls back in 1991.Also have happy memories of the Baobob Hotel.
NRZ 15th class;sex on wheels!.
Al.
As good as it gets!! Beats petrol fumes any day.........
Unburnt coal, that fireman would be fired over here in the states, although that is only just ash.
soot not carbon?
leave the loco alone, its doing its job alot better than a diesel would, and certainly more reliable than the electric locos!!!
Fireman is doing a piss poor job. This would never be allowed on the B&O and PRR, the company would fine such careless firing.
Carbon is food for forests, keep steam alive.
Yes, early farmers used to clear land and burn the bush then return the ashes into the tilled soil to improve the quality. Steam locos also banned in dry conditions due to burning ash often blown into dry vegetation...big source of bushfires.
i lived in wankie in the 1960,s
If this engine were running more efficiently there would be very little smoke and more carbon dioxide emissions. The efficiency of this locomotive is extremely poor because there is incomplete combustion plus sooting of the boiler tubes with resulting poor heat reclaimation from the fire - a complete waste of energy.
Yes however! How many steam locos are in daily use doing a 'proper' days work, like this old girl is doing hmmmm? Yet one says nought about dozens, nay, hundreds of mucky particulate spewing (unsilenced) diesels charging about China. Come to think of it there is an awful lot of 'China' in Africa at the moment. I’d love to know what’s doing the job now.
Possibly, but the steam engine is less efficient and so as far as CO2 emissions are concerned it is probably less 'green'. And that's an awful lot of respirable dust particles ending up in the atmosphere!!!