No Coal Cog in 2004

[rickb]

http://www.cmonitor.com/stories/news...g%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]

What are the conductors going to throw at us then? Molotov cocktails?

[Sleepy the Arab]

Dang! Grimace beat me to it!

[icemanat95]

Sounds like good news to me, you could smell the coal from miles away.

[Peaks]

No only smell, but you can also see the smoke plume from all over the White Mountains, even from the Mahoosucs.

[TJ aka Teej]

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]

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]

waking up to the smell of deisel in the morning....... mmmmmm loving that residue on everything...

[Crash]

can't make a molotov from diesel fuel.