Eastern Railroad Discussion > Alco Smoke

Looking back to the Streamliners at Spencer in 2014 this Alco FPA4 seems to have fuel delivery problems, but thats what Alco's do SMOKE!
Ed K. OH WELL PRODUCTIONS
cp Laurel Run

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Nice catch.   Cant believe that guy just walked in front of your video!

Alco's smoke and railfans walk in front of other railfan's cameras.  Like that Clinchfield caboose.  (Carolina Clinchfield & Ohio)

neat stuff. I always liked that paint scheme.

Yes, I ran that Alco at the museum in Monticello, Illinois 3 years ago. 
I always liked Alcos.

WLE2679 Wrote:
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   Cant believe that guy just walked in front of your video!

Remember this is a mega railfan event crawling w/ fans.  Also it appears Ed was using telephoto and there appears to be a small photo line at that position.

Ed at first I thought DLW got an FPA4.  Now that would be nifty.   The Alco chug and black smoke like in scene 2 is more what I remember from Alcos. Nice stuff.

Nice video, sights and sounds!!  First clip, the type of exhaust is a good indicator of a cold engine, not up to operating temperature.  Second clip, warm engine, black exhaust, typical Alco.    Doug

     Looks like the exhaust was partially capped in the first section since it was unable to go 'up'. Instead it was being blown down. 

Smoke em if you got em !

The hogger forgot to flip back the stack cover in the first clip.  He told me he realized that when exhaust starting coming in the cab windows, and the engine room was full of it.  Oh, and yes, it was the first trip of the day for them, and the loco was still "cold".