Steam & Excursion > Steam Appreciation 7- A Photo Just to Enjoy

#7 of 20 in a series w/o captions...   just some fave photos to look at.
SR

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Nice shot, looks like Martin is off somewhere playing trains today. Lets see what he comes back with.

Black Butte, heading west.


Nudge

Yeah, I’m stepping on Photobob’s turf too...
SR

Black Butte, 1984 New Orleans Worlds Fair Daylight. The late Richard P. Yager taking water, while we wait for the diesel helper/helpers to dynamic brake us down the 2.2% to Dunsmuir.

HotWater Wrote:
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> Black Butte, 1984 New Orleans Worlds Fair
> Daylight. The late Richard P. Yager taking water,
> while we wait for the diesel helper/helpers to
> dynamic brake us down the 2.2% to Dunsmuir.


Ha!  So it is- that's cool!
Hey Yage!
SR

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Anyone have an idea of how many GPM a standpipe like this puts out? How fast can you fill the tender?
It's too bad that the Black Butte pipe is gone. Bad luck that the Amtrak train took it out.

wingomann Wrote:
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> Anyone have an idea of how many GPM a standpipe
> like this puts out?

Having taken water many, many, may times from fire hydrants all over the midwest, southwest, and west, I can't ever recall a flow exceeded 500GPM through a 2 1/2 inch fire hose. However, that original "steam era" water column would deliver at least 1500 to 2000 GPM, what with the pressure head from the nearby water tank, not to mention the large diameter of the vertical column.

How fast can you fill the
> tender?

It took only a few minutes to overflow the tender.

> It's too bad that the Black Butte pipe is gone.
> Bad luck that the Amtrak train took it out.