Today was an abnormally damp and cold Easter Sunday here in the South. A walk between showers to the post office made me think about a similar day about 10 years ago when N&W 611 powered an excursion from Lexington to Stearns, Ky. and steam heated the coaches. Just curious as to how many of our operating tourist lines or museums still employ steam heat. Jim

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Hi Jim,

> Just curious as to how many of
> our operating tourist lines or museums still
> employ steam heat.

I know the original Edaville did.

Best Regards,
Glenn


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> Just curious as to how many of
> our operating tourist lines or museums still
> employ steam heat. Jim

for the count...Heber Valley does not.


Heber Valley Railroad
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Just curious as to how many of
> our operating tourist lines or museums still
> employ steam heat. Jim
The Huckleberry RR looked hard at using steam heat inour coaches, but finally went with a propane fired RV type system. But they had picked up a lot of steam heat equipment which is sitting on the shelves in our storage building. Anyone looking for steam heat parts? What have you got to trade? Call Marty Knox - (810)789-8508, or see me in Baraboo next weekend.

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>
>Add Steamtown to the list. Steam heat is a beautiful thing.

With the normally hot & humid southern summer coming up, how about steam air conditioning?

I know the Age of Steam in Dallas has a Santa Fe round end observation car (3197?) that still has its steam ejector A?C system intact. Don't know when was the last time it was actually used.

The AOS's operational M-160 doodlebug still has its steam generator and could possibly supply steam for the observation car.

> Today was an abnormally damp and cold Easter
> Sunday here in the South. A walk between
> showers to the post office made me think
> about a similar day about 10 years ago when
> N&W 611 powered an excursion from
> Lexington to Stearns, Ky. and steam heated
> the coaches. Just curious as to how many of
> our operating tourist lines or museums still
> employ steam heat. Jim


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Hey .. If caboose refrigerators worked by lighting a kerosene lamp, why not!


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Santa Fe and Milwaukee Road used steam ejector air conditioning. Were there others?

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> Today was an abnormally damp and cold Easter
> Sunday here in the South. A walk between
> showers to the post office made me think
> about a similar day about 10 years ago when
> N&W 611 powered an excursion from
> Lexington to Stearns, Ky. and steam heated
> the coaches. Just curious as to how many of
> our operating tourist lines or museums still
> employ steam heat. Jim
Connecticut's Valley Railroad, to the dismay of some of our firemen (hee, hee), still uses steam heat on its regular excursion train.

drotarinoh@webtv.net

We still use steam heat, keeps our coaches warm and cozy in the Canadian winter.

info@steamtrain.com

Yup, Steamtown uses steam heat, of course half the coaches are former DL&W MU cars, so propane heaters are now in place on those. I'm wondering what regulations apply to propane tanks stored under passenger cars, any at all? Are placards neccessary in this situation? I'm interested to hear a few thoughts on this.....

Dave Crosby

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Begining in the late 1930s a number of railroads used Waukesha propane gas engines to run generators or ice engines (air conditioning). The Southern Pacific was one of these railroads.

At Orange Empire we have ex-Soo Line business car #54 that has a Waukesha driven ice engine. It's been a number of years since we've used the Waukesha.

Brian Norden

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Any car with propane was (and is) prohibited from the North and East River tubes into Penn Station NY. Also prohibited was gasoline (used by Army Troop kitchens)



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I know Indiana Transportation Musuem uses steam heat from a frmer GN steam heat car (ex EMD FB unit conversion). The stainless steel cars all still have steam heat systems. I think the Whitewater Valley in southern Indiana also uses steam heat from one of their Alco diesels.

Jim


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> I know Indiana Transportation Musuem uses
> steam heat from a frmer GN steam heat car
> (ex EMD FB unit conversion). The stainless
> steel cars all still have steam heat
> systems. I think the Whitewater Valley in
> southern Indiana also uses steam heat from
> one of their Alco diesels.

> Jim

Actually Jim, the Whitewater Valley Railroad pulls a seperate steam heat car behind our diesels as we are not set up with HEP in our old switchers. I believe it is in a converted box car.
Not all our diesels are Alcos, either. As a matter of fact, we have two Baldwins coming in as soon as a little politics with N&S is settled.

-Angie


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