It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! The Porter locomotive was up and running again this past Labor Day Weekend at the Western Minnesota Steam Thresher's Reunion. I get to work a shift of 2 hours on it firing and it is quite fun. It's a Tank style engine that carries it's water supply over the boiler and then has a small bunker on the back to carry coal so does not have a tender.
How far can it go with its load of coal in the small bunker?
ReplyDeleteIf I remember correctly, they have to fill it a couple of times during the day between 10 and 5. The water we do more often because as the tank gets lower the water starts to heat up and the injector doesn't work as well. About once ever 2 hours.
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