03-28-2017, 04:55 PM
To continue on with tender Tuesday.......The tender trucks are all painted and weathered.
The fireman was added, weathering finished, coal boards were I installed ( only two installed in the bunker, the rest stored on the tender deck for when she is toped off), And the Coal or "Clum" as in this case was glued onto the foam spacer in the bunker. Clum is a low grade of anthracite, straight out of the mine with little cleaning. It sometimes contained as much dirt and rock as it did coal. It was accost savings measure taken on by the reigns anthracite haulers towards the end of steam. Although it did burn it took extra skill on the part of the fireman to keep up a full head of steam with a tender full of this stuff. In some cases it was mixed with soft coal to improve its qualities.
The fireman was added, weathering finished, coal boards were I installed ( only two installed in the bunker, the rest stored on the tender deck for when she is toped off), And the Coal or "Clum" as in this case was glued onto the foam spacer in the bunker. Clum is a low grade of anthracite, straight out of the mine with little cleaning. It sometimes contained as much dirt and rock as it did coal. It was accost savings measure taken on by the reigns anthracite haulers towards the end of steam. Although it did burn it took extra skill on the part of the fireman to keep up a full head of steam with a tender full of this stuff. In some cases it was mixed with soft coal to improve its qualities.
My other car is a locomotive, ARHS restoration crew