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Posted by Sand Box John on Wed Apr 8 08:32:14 2026, in response to Re: UP 4014, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Apr 8 04:18:33 2026. UP experimented with converting the 4000 class to oil burning when they were still in revenue service.All of the locos in the UP steam program are converted to oil firing to prevent hot cinders from igniting track fires, among other reasons. The most obvious other reason is the logistics needed to load coal in the tender and dumping of the ash from the grate in the fare box. None of the infrastructure to do that exists outside of historic / tourist operated railroads. Water can be loaded from trucks or fire hydrants, oil can loaded from trucks. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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