"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee)
01/25/2018 at 21:07 • Filed to: None
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"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee)
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barnie
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
01/25/2018 at 23:43 |
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Don’t recall where I read about it but this is a demo. Maybe tractor exhibitions... They put sawdust in the firebox that spews like this to give off all the sparkles without burning the terrain. If this was real life, the 2 guys in the cab would be burnt to a crisp. Looks really cool though!
Rock Bottom
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
01/26/2018 at 08:11 |
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This used to be a big problem for wood-burners, which would occasionally set the American Prairie on fire from their sparks! That’s why you’d see large cone-shaped spark arrestors on American steamers from the mid 1800s on. Coal steamers can spark a bit, but generally only when you’re working the shit out of them and have a huge draft through the firebox. Not sure what the mechanism is there, may be the extreme heat fractures the coal into small enough pieces to get carried out with the draft?
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If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> Rock Bottom
01/26/2018 at 09:49 |
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The quality of the gif and the fact that the loco is actually working hard makes me say it was taken in China. They still used steam locos for remote mining operations as recently as a few years ago. That loco is actually running the way they were used a century ago, not just as a nostalgia thing.
CaptDale - is secretly British
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
01/26/2018 at 14:33 |
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He is out of luck. I never had a soul!