Reading Co Hotbox at Hamburg
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- This is a short one, details in the intro panel. Hotbox was likely spotted from the caboose in the long curve east of Port Clinton along the river. Hamburg was the next siding available to set out the car.
Wow, you should also mention in the title that Reading FT units are pulling the train. There aren't a whole lot of clips showing EMD's FT's. I think that in itself would bring viewers too. That logo on the Atlantic & East Carolina boxcar was a treasure find as well. The person that shot this really brought the goods! 👍
Awesome footage in the reading area!
Cool. Never heard of "hotbox powder"
I think it was something similar to or containing baking soda. It releases CO2 to cut the fire's oxygen supply. Like a dry chemical extinguisher without the propellant. The preferred method for oil/grease fires as water just causes them to flare up.
Loved it! Thanks for sharing!
So that is why class 1’s frown upon friction bearings on their tracks since around 1994. Like RBMN can’t take their friction bearing coaches or steam locomotives onto NS. They have to turn 2102 at Haucks on their own tracks after returning to Reading from Jim Thorpe. Even though there is an NS wye in Reading at the old Outer Station site.
The Reading T1’s have roller bearings on all their axles, so that’s not the reason 2102 gets turned around on the RBMN’s own wye and not Norfolk Southern’s.
Though one curiosity is that NS is somewhat friendly to plain bearings given that NKP 765 ran with plain bearings on its trailing truck axles up until the 2018-2019 maintenance season where the trailing truck axle bearings were converted from plain bearing to roller bearings.
Gnarly. A little more and you've got a broken axle