Steam & Excursion > Cass 4 and Cass 5

Dan Dorko photographed Cass 4 and Cass 5 on the point of a photo excursion work train nearing Bald Knob, West Virginia on May 13, 1984.
Bob

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Nice shot.

Rather typical Cass "smoke so thick you could walk on it".   The fireman I had told me they were taught if you weren't lifting the pops all day and making gobs of smoke, you weren't doing your job...

Earlk Wrote:
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> Rather typical Cass "smoke so thick you could walk
> on it".   The fireman I had told me they were
> taught if you weren't lifting the pops all day and
> making gobs of smoke, you weren't doing your
> job...

Why? Waste of $, amongst other things. Are they still doing that now that the locomotives aren't run by the State?

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Most Exellent Smoke Show!

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA

RailRat Wrote:
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> Most Exellent Smoke Show!

If you're in to that kind of thing, some of us aren't. Like others have said, just a waste of coal and just gives the enviomental types more ammunition.