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rickb
02-25-2003, 09:43
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).

Grimace
02-25-2003, 10:25
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.

Peaks
05-29-2003, 16:18
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...

Crash
07-31-2003, 09:26
can't make a molotov from diesel fuel.