[modeleng] Re: Corn

One fuel that used to be used on locomotives and traction engines  was sugar 
cane.
That was (usually) chopped up and "blown" into the firebox.

I am fairly sure that some corn firing was done the same way.
Alan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "JESSE LIVINGSTON" <fernj1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 2:30 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Corn


> Corn might work exceptionally well if a person stoker fed it into the
> firebox.  Charles

A feller could make a "stoker" like a very early design I saw.  It consisted
of a sort of hopper with a ram in the bottom
Jesse in Tennessee, but not the part where Charles lives.


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