Got Milk? C&S number 60 in Leadville

[Jim Courtney]

I replaced the image in the original post at the top of the thread with a 1200 dbi scan of the actual print, that arrived in the mail today.

Still fiddling with contrast, etc.  If I produce a better image I will post it.

Jim

[snapped_bolt]

   In the NG Pictorial Volume VI, pg. 133, there is a "matching" image #60, photo caption reads "Como, August 2, 1936".

   It appears to me to be a problem with a safety valve either not seating fully (out of adjustment), allowing steam to leak continuously; or, perhaps over-firing, keeping the pop valves open, or even perhaps a terminally lazy fireman, overfilling the boiler on a regular basis, ore even a combination of everything above? There seems to have been a lot of liquid hot water involved to make such a relatively even coating of the dome.
   My Dad told me of a "lazy Frenchman" fireman. When my Dad was a hostler, he had to climb in the firebox of the rotary and bust up the clinkers to get them through the fire door. Apparently the NP kept that lazy fireman around, as I found a huge klinker over 150 miles away- apparently the product of a similar firing technique! The rotary was never used in our area.


    Cheers!

       Stan