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Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal
Author: Hot Water
Date: 10-07-2019 - 02:59

T. Ernie Ford Wrote:
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> If SOO 1003 can burn coal today, then why were
> some coal fired locomotives recently converted to
> oil, like UP 4014 and RDG 2100?

1) The SOO 1003 has always been a coal burner, and doesn't set wayside fires in the area that it operates.

2) UP 4014 was converted to oil burning in order that it could travel throughout the entire UP system without setting wayside fires, just like 3985 was converted to oil burning back in 1989/1990.

3) Reading 2100 is NOT being converted to oil, in fact it is being returned to burning coal after the disastrous "oil burning" trials in Tacoma, Wash. quite some years ago.

I also read that
> NP 924 is being converted from coal to presto
> log.
>
> Photo:
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> [live.staticflickr.com]
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> [www.flickr.com]
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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal T. Ernie Ford 10-06-2019 - 19:08
  Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal Hot Water 10-07-2019 - 02:59
  Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal Barry Sotoro 10-07-2019 - 07:26
  Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal Soo Line & Walleye Fan 10-07-2019 - 19:44
  Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal HUTCH 7.62 10-07-2019 - 07:36
  Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal My Heavens! 10-07-2019 - 09:20
  Re: SOO 1003 -- taking on a load of coal HUTCH 7.62 10-07-2019 - 09:45
  RDG 2100 Hen Party Cluck cluck 10-07-2019 - 18:47


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