Train Mountain | 2022 Triennial | June 20th Director's Cut 

Train Mountain is now performing a boiler safety inspection - checking safeties, water glass, etc. but not performing a hydro test.

Oh yeah, there is a good amount of you guys double-heading. It will be in upcoming videos

I’m not in the business of making safety videos covering the rules of each railroad. That’s the job of that organization and the Train Mountain Railroad Museum has already published a safety video on RU-vid that visiting operators must watch detailing their rules and regs. As for the time, Monday we left the yard at 1400 hours, went out to Hope circle, and didn’t get back until 1800 hours. Very large railroad

@@TheSteamChannel Well said.. LoL 😂😆

June of 2025

Typically no, if you're running propane you don't have to clean them at all. But with oil, coal, or wood, usually once a day either before you fire up or after it's cooled down. And like the real ones, if you fire right it's usually not bad, but if you overfire, well, you're gonna get good at cleaning!

@@kleetus92 Thanks for the info, I have another question! When you say "before you fire up" or "after it's cooled down" what do you mean? Because I thought that you only sand them when you have a very strong draft in the fire, and not when its cooled down.

@@AshAndSteam Sanding really isn't the way to clean the the flues, even in full size. It was a makeshift, kinda get out of jail free, kinda thing that road crews would do once in a while if they over fired or got a bad batch of coal. Reason being, you generally aren't going to have a supply of sand in the cab in the first place, and second, sucking it through the flues wears the facing edge of the tube sheet. When you 'punch' the flues, you use a brush similar to rifle bore brush to shove it down and pull back to the smokebox to clean the flues, so the wear if any, is even throughout the tube. By sanding, you're sucking it in the firebox end and abrading that face first and continually as you add more to clean the total length of the flues. Another problem is if you're running hard enough to pull a serious draft to pull sand off a shovel in the firebox door, your fire is blindingly bright and hot, and now you're mixing it with ambient air which is several hundred degrees colder... so you're getting some odd thermal action going on in an otherwise stable thermal system which again doesn't bode well for mechanical longevity. On our models, I'm honestly not sure if you could sand them under a heavy load because most places you won't have a grade long enough to sand on before you have to slow down or top the hill, and, all that crap is going to come out the stack... and right into your face! Cinders are bad enough I always wear some kind of glasses or goggles, now add sand to the mix... it would just be a huge gritty carbony mess.

​@@AshAndSteam He's talking about cleaning the tubes and smoke box. I don't think sanding works in smaller scales because you don't have the same airflow (besides it would be hard to find scale sand 🤔)

@@russkepler Oh, thanks! 😃