FUD Wrote:
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> Was at a model railroad meet at a live steamers
> group earlier this year. Great place, good food,
> lots of rides. Operating locomotives included a
> small coal burner (the owner said that it wasn't
> used often because it's hard to get the right coal
> for it any more); a propane burner (most of their
> locomotives in regular use - they give rides to
> the public on many weekends - run on propane,
> mainly because it's easier to use and refuel); and
> a big SP Mountain model running (prototypically)
> on oil (diesel fuel, like most modern steamers at
> 12"=1').

Sorry but, there are no "modern steamers" using #2 diesel for fuel. Today's "modern steamers", which are oil burners, mostly use reprocessed waste oil.

Mixed with bbq, made for an interesting
> collection of odors. But no woodburners (kind of
> hard to do in small scales, and there had been a
> nearby small brush fire a few weeks earlier and
> people would get a little concerned about THAT
> smell again). One G-scale live steamer ran on
> alcohol, which is usually a biofuel.