Clag of the Year

The Poles are clearly not importing our Top Hards coal. :smt002

 

Any one got any screen wipes - my PC has suddenly got very dirty!

Richard

 

Sure I've seen heard of one of S160 5197 on the Churnet Valley that's a little louder than that \/ =D>

 

Polish engines dont burn coal.. they just shred it and throw it out of the chimney.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvot4bVNf5Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiYVCWNkopA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noGiKDePkII&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoYb4QFz-m0&feature=channel

Should get the environmentalists all hot and bothered.

 

I don't want to sound nationalistic, but can't anyone find any good old-fashioned British clag to compete with this?

Richard

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DJTrq-oZeo

 

Surely someone can come up with something even better - an industrial maybe ... 8-[

Going off topic (!!!!), this reminds me of Snowdon Mountain Railway shed at 7am (before they had diesels), with thick yellow smoke sticking to everything including my lungs. Now that''s what I call atmosphere!

Richard

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBgFZJFh ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3vvpVph ... annel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odEByoOn ... annel_page

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xypzXvDv ... annel_page

 

Me thinks there is a bit of overfiring going on around here !!-- believe we should have a light haze at the chimney ------- a bit of grandstanding maybe

 

Check out this video of S160 5197 putting on the clag and the noise at the ELR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfeVGbDLw_Q

 

Louder or not, THAT is a very nicely shot video. =D>

 

Am I right in thinking that most of the American and Polish engines are steam powered stokers. Having worked on a French 141R i can say that the coal that they use is like dust and does go straight up the chimney when they are being fired.

On steam test at Schaffhousen http://chris.photoblog.org.uk/p54550781.html

Are we jsut looking at the end result that is black cloud or do we look at seperate Uk hand fired clag and American/continental machine stoker fired?

Awesome shot of the S160 by the way, with a demonstration like that i cant understand the lack of enthusiasm for 2253.

 

I knew I'd find something eventually ...
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=235777&nseq=4305
Chuck another shovelful on, lad!

Richard

 

Generally speaking American steam super power doesn't do light haze at the chimney. They're worked pretty hard and with the type of fuel they use with mechanical stokers lots of clag is often the result. Anyway what's wrong with a bit of grandstanding?

 

Heres some middleton clag (not me by the way) ....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_Ska6N96Xk

and some more but not from this year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGNAqADNOc4
Dont know whos firing on the 2nd clip :-k (hehe)