CPKC

[nickelplate759]

Hawghead's comment brought this off-topic question to mind:

Has anyone tried, seriously, to run a steam loco on diesel?  I wouldn't think it would be any harder than using oil, with the right burners, and would fit right in on today's railroads.  The Russians once used dried fish for fuel, and American railroads in the Midwest, in the very early years, were known to burn buffalo chips.

Yep!  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_diesel_hybrid_locomotive

[jagged ben]

Redwood Valley Railway - 15" guage railway in Berkeley' Tilden park - uses diesel to fire the steak boilers.  Or maybe another type of fuel oil but I think I heard diesel.  I suspect it's pretty common in these narrow gauge tourist attraction type steam locos.  Standard gauge not so much?

Talk about thread drift.

[cv_acr]

Has anyone tried, seriously, to run a steam loco on diesel?

AFAIK Canadian Pacific's steam engine 2816 actually burns diesel since its early 2000s refurbishment.

[Missaberoad]

AFAIK Canadian Pacific's steam engine 2816 actually burns diesel since its early 2000s refurbishment.

I remember hearing that as well but couldn't find it confirmed anywhere, glad my recollection isn't out to lunch.

[Mike C]

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