Bloody beautiful country...I am yet to see any part of NZ where there is no magical scenery. Going through some of the country that she does, are there stops to sample the crayfish or mussels or the sav. blanc ?
Not that simple, Paul. With bunker oil, a hotter fire than with coal is possible. Too hot a fire and the boiler could be damage or destroyed by erosion of the firetubes. The fireman watches the firetube temperature carefully, so when the engine is running fast with full steam-admission (bank climbing), there might be enouogh air to cause an over-heat at the boiler-face, so the fireman adds more oil. Some years ago, I fired steam just once on a preserved paddlewheel tug, the "Portland", owned by the Port of Portland, Oregon, USA and on permanent loan to the Maritime Museum here. Water, oil and flame temperature. Have to multitask to fire a steam boiler. Flame temp is easy these days, each fireman has a pocket optical pyrometer in his coveralls.
A blue haze we were taught by Jack Plowman at boiler ticket training in Napier 1964. When tubing out (cleaning out the oil soot in the tubes) the driver pulls the regulator full out and the fireman adds a bit more oil to finish the job. Takes just a few minutes, and they always do it out in the country away from washing lines!
Great VID. The smoke from the Steamer for this terrain is unnecessarily excessive and I would suggest it was put on for benefit of the camera. Or if not it needs a good tune up, failing that the engine driver needs some urgent remedial training.
@@steamfan2806 Thanks for the clarification. I am sure the Driver wouldn't be too happy with the Fireman under normal circumstances. Interestingly you can see when the Loco is under load as you get a mixture of Soot and Steam from the stack the others are just over fueling. Still good VId.
What is with all the horrid black smoke. Are they burning old tyres or something equally terrible? If that is the best they can get then run it on LPG.
@@maryhay2464 I was brought up in Wales the home of lots of different forms of coal. It was not until I moved to Lincolnshire & we used to get the od bit of Fiarey Jack from the top of the seam to burn on our house fires. It spits & blows dense black smoke. Welsh steam coal, yours is not. But the engine makes up for the Coal substitute. Do not worry, here in Britain at the end of steam they ran our railways on horrid coal that clinkered up the gratings & made quite horrid smoke. It is a case of burn what you can get, not what you would prefer.
Thank you for the footage I can't wait till the next excursion when the railway line is fully operational as most people realise they are only karting freight between Christchurch and Picton at present. My mother has photos of 1240 or Jessica as she's known now when she was dug out of the hill at old boy Colemans
she was never dug out of a hill. But was [positioned over a short length of rail out in front of Petes lower storey of his house. I have photo's of this.
reckon the fireman needs some tuition in working the controls of the oil. No need for all that smoke. I did enjoy the vid just the same. Brings back memories of my time working with steam back in the day.
Thank you. I had forgotten the disgusting pollution we grew up with..... these monsters need to have their innards replaced with battery driven electrics.
Ian Viereck its actually very clean burning as we reuse old engine oil i hope you dont drive take a bus fly or use anything with that uses oil or coal or fuel cause j wouldnt want you to be polluting the world
I sometimes wonder whether they're doing it "for the photographers". Oil-fired, one of the things the fireman should be watching is whether there is ANY smoke once the tender is all warmed up. Let in more air to burn better and get more power, or reduce the oil and when properly set, all that can be seem is the exhaust steam, and that only on a cold day. I've seen a Ja running flat out with only a heat haze over the chimney.
Well done all you people who preserved that impressive loco ,
The sight and sounds are epic hope to ride this train on my next visit to new zealand
Valuable footage of the coast before the 6m uplift.
Excellent, I really enjoyed watching this one.
Bloody beautiful country...I am yet to see any part of NZ where there is no magical scenery.
Going through some of the country that she does, are there stops to sample the crayfish or mussels or the sav. blanc ?
Looks like the Ja is runnung a bit rich! More air or less oil to clean that up.
Paul Langford it’s a K A Class
Not that simple, Paul. With bunker oil, a hotter fire than with coal is possible. Too hot a fire and the boiler could be damage or destroyed by erosion of the firetubes. The fireman watches the firetube temperature carefully, so when the engine is running fast with full steam-admission (bank climbing), there might be enouogh air to cause an over-heat at the boiler-face, so the fireman adds more oil. Some years ago, I fired steam just once on a preserved paddlewheel tug, the "Portland", owned by the Port of Portland, Oregon, USA and on permanent loan to the Maritime Museum here. Water, oil and flame temperature. Have to multitask to fire a steam boiler. Flame temp is easy these days, each fireman has a pocket optical pyrometer in his coveralls.
A blue haze we were taught by Jack Plowman at boiler ticket training in Napier 1964. When tubing out (cleaning out the oil soot in the tubes) the driver pulls the regulator full out and the fireman adds a bit more oil to finish the job. Takes just a few minutes, and they always do it out in the country away from washing lines!
Brilliant!
Great VID.
The smoke from the Steamer for this terrain is unnecessarily excessive and I would suggest it was put on for benefit of the camera. Or if not it needs a good tune up, failing that the engine driver needs some urgent remedial training.
The fireman not the driver control's the oil
@@steamfan2806 Thanks for the clarification. I am sure the Driver wouldn't be too happy with the Fireman under normal circumstances. Interestingly you can see when the Loco is under load as you get a mixture of Soot and Steam from the stack the others are just over fueling. Still good VId.
What is the back story? 942 going up. 1240 south?
That was amazing! How would you know when they are running?
What is with all the horrid black smoke. Are they burning old tyres or something equally terrible? If that is the best they can get then run it on LPG.
@@maryhay2464 I was brought up in Wales the home of lots of different forms of coal. It was not until I moved to Lincolnshire & we used to get the od bit of Fiarey Jack from the top of the seam to burn on our house fires. It spits & blows dense black smoke. Welsh steam coal, yours is not. But the engine makes up for the Coal substitute. Do not worry, here in Britain at the end of steam they ran our railways on horrid coal that clinkered up the gratings & made quite horrid smoke. It is a case of burn what you can get, not what you would prefer.
Crap
Wait, your telling me that came by Blenheim and I DIDNT SEE IT?
An Overlander carriage in the South Island?
so all KA locomotives that were built were 4-8-4s? I thought they were 4--8-2s
J's were 4-8-2 s
@@steamfan2806 oh, thx
Thank you for the footage I can't wait till the next excursion when the railway line is fully operational as most people realise they are only karting freight between Christchurch and Picton at present. My mother has photos of 1240 or Jessica as she's known now when she was dug out of the hill at old boy Colemans
she was never dug out of a hill. But was [positioned over a short length of rail out in front of Petes lower storey of his house. I have photo's of this.
Blue sky and black smoke
Too nuch steam from the funnel ruining the cylinder lubrication
1249 look what has happrned to the cylinder
Nice smook
Beautiful old time classic chug chug! 😁 Could do without the air pollution though!
I had an idea to put a filter over the steam locomotives funnel to filter out the pollution
reckon the fireman needs some tuition in working the controls of the oil. No need for all that smoke. I did enjoy the vid just the same. Brings back memories of my time working with steam back in the day.
Converted to oil burning...? The amount of pollution form the stack, takes away from the steamers "beauty".
Bit of a shame if is so dirty...
The cleanliness of oil burning is highly dependent on the fireman's skill with manipulating the fire.
the correct amount of smoke is a slight haze at the chummy. [ trust me ].
"K' class were oil burners.
Not all of them.
Ka
Thank you. I had forgotten the disgusting pollution we grew up with..... these monsters need to have their innards replaced with battery driven electrics.
No they don't.
Crap
It's very beautiful but that is a lot of pollution
Ian Viereck its actually very clean burning as we reuse old engine oil i hope you dont drive take a bus fly or use anything with that uses oil or coal or fuel cause j wouldnt want you to be polluting the world
Ian Viereck
I'd worry about the cows more myself
Ian Viereck
Alexander Cox j
I sometimes wonder whether they're doing it "for the photographers". Oil-fired, one of the things the fireman should be watching is whether there is ANY smoke once the tender is all warmed up. Let in more air to burn better and get more power, or reduce the oil and when properly set, all that can be seem is the exhaust steam, and that only on a cold day. I've seen a Ja running flat out with only a heat haze over the chimney.
Back off with those clouds of oil smoke .
An Overlander carriage in the South Island?