4”x5” lump. Used in hand fired engines. Smaller coal - used in stoker fired engines - would clog the grates as stoker coal is meant to be partially burned in the air, not fall/sit on the grates as 4x5 lump is.
There is a foot pedal on the footplate (floor of the cab) just to the left of the firebox doors. As the fireman approaches the doors with a shovel of coal he steps on the pedal and compressed air is fed into a cylinder which moves a piston connected to a linkage that opens the doors.
Coal in North America is available in several types and sizes. Locomotive 40 is hand fired so the pieces of coal can be in various sizes. Basically, anything that can be shoveled through the firebox doors can be used. A really skilled fireman can use the different sizes to his advantage as he tries to build up an even bed of fire in the firebox. If the locomotive uses a mechanical stoker to feed the coal into the firebox the railway would buy "stoker coal" which has smaller pieces that are more uniform in size. If you freeze the video at 1:13 you will see the coaling tower in the background just to the right of the tender of Locomotive 40 behind the hopper car. Notice that there are 2 sections to the coaling tower. The light coloured one on the left is made of concrete and was used for the lumpy coal that you see being used in #40. The dark coloured section on the right is made of timbers and was used for stoker coal. Neither coaling tower is currently in use and the tenders are loaded using a front end loader. Nevada Northern Railway still has a steam locomotive (#93) which used a stoker but it is currently undergoing a rebuild and after much consideration the stoker is being removed and it will be hand fired. You could certainly use stoker coal to hand fire a locomotive, but I suspect it costs more per kilogram as it would require further processing to crush the large lumps and screen out pieces that are too small.
Thank you so much for your explanations. Several machines get in times before WW II a stoker. But this technic didn't satisfy. Nobody knows the reason why. Maybe German coal is not suitable to this technics. So they rebuilt all fireboxes. In former times the locomotivs get coal loaded without any screening called "Förderkohle". The grain size variated from 0 mm to 700 mm or more. So the fireman allways took a hammer to destroy the big lumps. Since the 50th of the last century the DB loaded "Knabbel" (cobbles). Grainsize 80 mm until to 120 mm. This was the best size, I loved it. The DR (Railway in Eastern Germany) used for firing lignit or Polish coal with a big content of volatile matters.. A lot of engines fired dust of a very bituminous coal. This firing technic is similar to the stoker. Only 1 locomtive # 50 4900 retained. But this engine doesn't work nowadays.
You're in EAST Ely, Nevada and it's the Nevada Northern Railway not the Nevada Northern Pacific or whatever you made up. The good old boys, many of whom I knew, used to call it the N & N.
Hi Kip; I looks like you enjoyed your time at the Nevada Northern Railway and you have created a great presentation! That being said, Joe is 100% correct from where I sit. I know it is really hard to get every detail correct when making a presentation but it is worth trying, and the name of the railroad and its location are easy to verify from their web site. I have also discovered (after a lifetime of making errors that others have brought to my attention) that it is worth accepting such corrections gracefully. By the way, at 0:39 and 1:03 into your presentation you come down the steps of a caboose "frontwards". That is much less safe than coming down backwards. If you trip, you will land face first on the roadbed and your chances of tripping are higher because either you are not hanging onto the handrails or if you are hanging on, your arms are bent behind you. The safer (and railroad approved) way is to come down the steps "backwards" while hanging onto the handrails. Hanging onto the handrails is easier to do because your arms will be in front of you and your centre of gravity will be towards the centreline of the car. If you do trip, the fall is also likely to be less severe. The basic rule is always face the centerline of the car when ascending or descending ladders and steps. By the way, I am in no way affiliated with the Nevada Northern Railway other than having visited the place once and learning all I could about it while I was there. I too greatly enjoyed my visit!
Well it's easier to take corrections "gracefully" when the corrections aren't snarky. That's okay, one thing I've noticed on YT is that there's ALWAYS someone who wants to let you know they know more about the subject than you do. Great video, Kip!
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Awesome steam train video! You're lucky to actually ride in the engine!
I guess the engineer is the senior guy and the fireman gets the workout.
I was a fireman on one of these and have operated one as a Hostler around the roundhouse
And by the way, steamers are so much cooler and better than diesels of today and from the first time railroads dieselized!
Was this the Nevada Northern Railroad??
great to see the end and the cowboy,s ,,here in the Netherlands we have gangsters of turkey and Marokko
Is that a Powell 3-chime that I hear?
So glad that you didn't say 'drive' the train in the title.
At the beginning the gent who runs the Museum is shown standing back a bit from the train.
Familiar to some from Rob's Restorations on TV.
His name is Mark Bassett. He is a real fun guy to know and has an awesome train set!
Thanks for filling in that detail, couldn't remember it when I made the comment!
Working as a fireman is a good ab workout
i love steam trains
Baldwin didn't build the whole train, just the locomotive.
that wind tho
Those are some large chunks of coal
Andrew Kollasch 1a
4”x5” lump. Used in hand fired engines. Smaller coal - used in stoker fired engines - would clog the grates as stoker coal is meant to be partially burned in the air, not fall/sit on the grates as 4x5 lump is.
Awsome
one loud air compreser
my thoughts as well
It´s ok but the subtitles please!
She's beautiful .
how those fire doors open by themselves? O_0 its like the engine it says feed me more...
There is a foot pedal on the footplate (floor of the cab) just to the left of the firebox doors. As the fireman approaches the doors with a shovel of coal he steps on the pedal and compressed air is fed into a cylinder which moves a piston connected to a linkage that opens the doors.
Plot twist: The guys were actually robbing the train.
This has to be Arizona or Nevada
What a lumpy coal! In Germany the coal is no big.
Coal in North America is available in several types and sizes. Locomotive 40 is hand fired so the pieces of coal can be in various sizes. Basically, anything that can be shoveled through the firebox doors can be used. A really skilled fireman can use the different sizes to his advantage as he tries to build up an even bed of fire in the firebox. If the locomotive uses a mechanical stoker to feed the coal into the firebox the railway would buy "stoker coal" which has smaller pieces that are more uniform in size. If you freeze the video at 1:13 you will see the coaling tower in the background just to the right of the tender of Locomotive 40 behind the hopper car. Notice that there are 2 sections to the coaling tower. The light coloured one on the left is made of concrete and was used for the lumpy coal that you see being used in #40. The dark coloured section on the right is made of timbers and was used for stoker coal. Neither coaling tower is currently in use and the tenders are loaded using a front end loader. Nevada Northern Railway still has a steam locomotive (#93) which used a stoker but it is currently undergoing a rebuild and after much consideration the stoker is being removed and it will be hand fired. You could certainly use stoker coal to hand fire a locomotive, but I suspect it costs more per kilogram as it would require further processing to crush the large lumps and screen out pieces that are too small.
Thank you so much for your explanations. Several machines get in times before WW II a stoker. But this technic didn't satisfy. Nobody knows the reason why. Maybe German coal is not suitable to this technics. So they rebuilt all fireboxes. In former times the locomotivs get coal loaded without any screening called "Förderkohle". The grain size variated from 0 mm to 700 mm or more. So the fireman allways took a hammer to destroy the big lumps. Since the 50th of the last century the DB loaded "Knabbel" (cobbles). Grainsize 80 mm until to 120 mm. This was the best size, I loved it. The DR (Railway in Eastern Germany) used for firing lignit or Polish coal with a big content of volatile matters.. A lot of engines fired dust of a very bituminous coal. This firing technic is similar to the stoker. Only 1 locomtive # 50 4900 retained. But this engine doesn't work nowadays.
You're in EAST Ely, Nevada and it's the Nevada Northern Railway not the Nevada Northern Pacific or whatever you made up. The good old boys, many of whom I knew, used to call it the N & N.
ok Joe. But that is what they called it. I just go by their title they use. thanks for sharing.
Hi Kip; I looks like you enjoyed your time at the Nevada Northern Railway and you have created a great presentation! That being said, Joe is 100% correct from where I sit. I know it is really hard to get every detail correct when making a presentation but it is worth trying, and the name of the railroad and its location are easy to verify from their web site. I have also discovered (after a lifetime of making errors that others have brought to my attention) that it is worth accepting such corrections gracefully. By the way, at 0:39 and 1:03 into your presentation you come down the steps of a caboose "frontwards". That is much less safe than coming down backwards. If you trip, you will land face first on the roadbed and your chances of tripping are higher because either you are not hanging onto the handrails or if you are hanging on, your arms are bent behind you. The safer (and railroad approved) way is to come down the steps "backwards" while hanging onto the handrails. Hanging onto the handrails is easier to do because your arms will be in front of you and your centre of gravity will be towards the centreline of the car. If you do trip, the fall is also likely to be less severe. The basic rule is always face the centerline of the car when ascending or descending ladders and steps. By the way, I am in no way affiliated with the Nevada Northern Railway other than having visited the place once and learning all I could about it while I was there. I too greatly enjoyed my visit!
Well it's easier to take corrections "gracefully" when the corrections aren't snarky. That's okay, one thing I've noticed on YT is that there's ALWAYS someone who wants to let you know they know more about the subject than you do. Great video, Kip!
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One thing . Throw that annoying bell overboard.
Henry Jurkiewicz and the bad camera work.
This just plain bad