A statement in Loco Profile No.35, "Canadian Pacific Selkirks",
printed in 1973 by Profile Publications, England, reads "Fuel oil in
the tender was kept to a temperature around 170 deg. F. (77 deg. C.)
by heating coils in the tender fuel tank, steam flow through which was
under control of the fireman."
I assume that the reference is to heating the fuel oil locally only,
prior to its exit from the tender, as heating the entire fuel load
(4100 to 4300 gallons) to that temperature would have been impractical.
Was fuel oil heating common to any other oil-fuelled CPR classes?
