View Full Version : No Coal Cog in 2004
http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/news/recent2003/0223%5Fcleanercog%5F2003.shtml
Looks like the Cog will be powered by heating oil soon. The link above gives the details (For some reason I can't paste it into the link thingy).
What are the conductors going to throw at us then? Molotov cocktails?
Sleepy the Arab
02-25-2003, 19:48
Dang! Grimace beat me to it!
icemanat95
05-29-2003, 15:34
Sounds like good news to me, you could smell the coal from miles away.
No only smell, but you can also see the smoke plume from all over the White Mountains, even from the Mahoosucs.
TJ aka Teej
05-29-2003, 18:53
That'll also mean no Train Whistle blasts! I nearly had a heart attack after climbing up above the valley clouds and napping in the morning sun only to be BLASTED awake by that damn train whistle!
icemanat95
07-30-2003, 15:30
Not necessarily. It's most likely that the trains will still be steam powered engines, the boilers will just be converted to burn oil rather than coal. Oil is a more refined fuel that coal with fewer combustion byproducts, so the smell should be considerably less as should the smoke. That's a good thing. We'll still have to live with the whistles.
MadAussieInLondon
07-31-2003, 03:33
waking up to the smell of deisel in the morning....... mmmmmm loving that residue on everything...
can't make a molotov from diesel fuel.