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Re: Tankcar Steam Connections

I have photos of the inside of an ATSF storage tank at Emporia with the large heating lines inside that tank. Santa Fe tended to drain the oil out of the cars into wood lined troughs between the rails

By Steve SANDIFER · #153742 ·

Re: Tankcar Steam Connections

Makes more sense now Dennis… Jack Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 7:39 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: RE: [STMFC] Tankcar Steam Connections ---In STMFC@...,

By Jack Burgess <jack@...> · #153741 ·

Re: Tankcar Steam Connections

Chuck… That helps…I was thinking that you were describing a system where steam was simply injected into the tank car. Jack Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 7:25 PM To:

By Jack Burgess <jack@...> · #153740 ·

Re: Tankcar Steam Connections

---In STMFC@..., <jack@...> wrote : Chuck… So, it is hard to understand why they would introduce steam/water into a tank car full of Bunker C rather than circulate through a series of pipes and then

By destorzek@... · #153739 ·

Re: Tankcar Steam Connections

Jack, the condensate trap is attached to the low point of the steam coils and drains to the ground. No water need be introduced to the oil being heated. Not speaking from theory or hearsay, I spent

By Charles Peck · #153738 ·

Re: Airbrush: Iwata HP-M2

Denny... I think that was the same sales pitch that I experienced a number of years earlier at another NMRA convention when I purchased my Iwata double action airbrush... Jack Burgess

By Jack Burgess <jack@...> · #153737 ·

Re: Tankcar Steam Connections

Chuck… I asked a current day, experienced steam locomotive fireman a question about Bunker C in a similar situation on the Yosemite Valley Railroad. Based on his knowledge, I wrote an article

By Jack Burgess <jack@...> · #153736 ·

Re: Airbrush: Iwata HP-M2

I will speak up also for the double actions. I had been happily using a bullet-proof Paasche syphon single action brush since the mid fifties. Then at the NMRA Sacramento convention some 7 or 8

By Denny Anspach <danspachmd@...> · #153735 ·

Re: Tankcar Steam Connections

The outlet does not need to be venting steam. Nor does there need to be a return line to the steam generator; A condensate trap at a low point will drain water and allow fresh hot steam into the

By Charles Peck · #153734 ·

Re: Tankcar Steam Connections

More engineering ignorance on my part here: doesn't the steam need to flow through the heating pipes? In other words, doesn't there need to be two connections for steam, one inlet and one outlet? It

By Richard Townsend · #153733 ·

Re: Tankcar Steam Connections

Thanks to all who answered. The project was trying to figure out what exactly was happening in a forties era photo captioned "unloading road oil." There is a tankcar, an oil spreader truck with the

By destorzek@... · #153732 ·

Re: For PRR X29 boxcar fans

Claus, I'm guessing this is long, but for some reason I missed your post until now. If you still have the info, I'd love to have it. If not, oh well. Thanks, Dave Thursday, October 26, 2017, 6:17:03

By A&Y Dave in MD · #153731 ·

Re: Tankcar Steam Connections

Still would need a drain at the bottom of the car for the water to drain out. Rich Wilkens

By Richard Wilkens · #153730 ·

Re: Tankcar Steam Connections

Jim... About 12 years ago, I was writing an article for RMC about Bunker C and asked that question of a friend who was owned a company that repaired steam boilers. He had to ask one of the old-timers

By Jack Burgess <jack@...> · #153729 ·

Re: Airbrush: Iwata HP-M2

paul got some great videos on youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzSpIXpu_Z2kAk3NucCpo2w tom cataldo -- Thomas j Cataldo

By tjcataldo · #153728 ·

Re: Airbrush: Iwata HP-M2

A dual action airbrush can seem intimidating at first…pushing the button while also pulling it back but it is easy with just a very little practice. I have been using dual action airbrushes for

By Jack Burgess <jack@...> · #153727 ·

Re: Airbrush: Iwata HP-M2

iwata is what i used go to coastairbrush.com for all your air brush parts tom -- Thomas j Cataldo

By tjcataldo · #153726 ·

Re: Tankcar Steam Connections

Jon, Perhaps those rivets support the heating coils inside the car? All, So what temp did the contents have to get to "flow easily"? And how long did the car have to be hooked up to the

By Jim Betz · #153725 ·

Re: Tankcar Steam Connections

Jim Ferenc wrote: One of the tank cars I inherited from Richard Hendrickson was modified to have this tank-top steam connection. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley,

By Tony Thompson · #153724 ·

Re: Airbrush: Iwata HP-M2

I have the same Iwata gravity feed airbrush Jack mentioned, and I think you would be much happier with a double action airbrush. Hobby Lobby had a weekly 40% off coupon that’s good for one item. I

By Nelson Moyer · #153723 ·

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