The fireman not the driver control's the oil

@@steamfan2806 Thanks for the clarification. I am sure the Driver wouldn't be too happy with the Fireman under normal circumstances. Interestingly you can see when the Loco is under load as you get a mixture of Soot and Steam from the stack the others are just over fueling. Still good VId.

she was never dug out of a hill. But was [positioned over a short length of rail out in front of Petes lower storey of his house. I have photo's of this.

Paul Langford it’s a K A Class

Not that simple, Paul. With bunker oil, a hotter fire than with coal is possible. Too hot a fire and the boiler could be damage or destroyed by erosion of the firetubes. The fireman watches the firetube temperature carefully, so when the engine is running fast with full steam-admission (bank climbing), there might be enouogh air to cause an over-heat at the boiler-face, so the fireman adds more oil. Some years ago, I fired steam just once on a preserved paddlewheel tug, the "Portland", owned by the Port of Portland, Oregon, USA and on permanent loan to the Maritime Museum here. Water, oil and flame temperature. Have to multitask to fire a steam boiler. Flame temp is easy these days, each fireman has a pocket optical pyrometer in his coveralls.

A blue haze we were taught by Jack Plowman at boiler ticket training in Napier 1964. When tubing out (cleaning out the oil soot in the tubes) the driver pulls the regulator full out and the fireman adds a bit more oil to finish the job. Takes just a few minutes, and they always do it out in the country away from washing lines!

@@maryhay2464 I was brought up in Wales the home of lots of different forms of coal. It was not until I moved to Lincolnshire & we used to get the od bit of Fiarey Jack from the top of the seam to burn on our house fires. It spits & blows dense black smoke. Welsh steam coal, yours is not. But the engine makes up for the Coal substitute. Do not worry, here in Britain at the end of steam they ran our railways on horrid coal that clinkered up the gratings & made quite horrid smoke. It is a case of burn what you can get, not what you would prefer.

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@@steamfan2806 oh, thx

I had an idea to put a filter over the steam locomotives funnel to filter out the pollution

reckon the fireman needs some tuition in working the controls of the oil. No need for all that smoke. I did enjoy the vid just the same. Brings back memories of my time working with steam back in the day.

The cleanliness of oil burning is highly dependent on the fireman's skill with manipulating the fire.

the correct amount of smoke is a slight haze at the chummy. [ trust me ].

Not all of them.

Ka

No they don't.

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Ian Viereck its actually very clean burning as we reuse old engine oil i hope you dont drive take a bus fly or use anything with that uses oil or coal or fuel cause j wouldnt want you to be polluting the world

Ian Viereck I'd worry about the cows more myself

Ian Viereck

Alexander Cox j

I sometimes wonder whether they're doing it "for the photographers". Oil-fired, one of the things the fireman should be watching is whether there is ANY smoke once the tender is all warmed up. Let in more air to burn better and get more power, or reduce the oil and when properly set, all that can be seem is the exhaust steam, and that only on a cold day. I've seen a Ja running flat out with only a heat haze over the chimney.