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Stephen Hussar

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A case of over-firing?
« on: January 17, 2010, 10:33:56 AM »
The fireman looks relatively calm in this photo... but what's going on here?
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=310898&nseq=1
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Re: A case of over-firing?
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2010, 01:26:09 PM »
I would say someone left the oil running to high. I've seen it with my oil furnace after a malfunction. Only I didn't have flames coming out the stack.
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Re: A case of over-firing?
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2010, 06:57:12 PM »
Chimney fire? Afterburner? Tube Cleaning device?
Seriously, I would speculate that for some reason the oil feed was on for a while before the fire was lit, and when restarted there would be a nice hot oil coating on everything.
Interesting that we've not seen that before, though, so maybe there is an alternate explanation.
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