Wearing of the "GREEN"

And appearing in Pullman Green we have something that might be passed off as an Irish Shamrock.

 

Well, since we're doing Katy................

 

And then there was this thing. Some sort of Thermos bottle with canned steam to turn the wheels. "Look Ma, no fire."

 

wow! a loco that was scrapped in 1946 that is lettered for a railroad created in 1980....i know, it is 473. Man, they look in green

 

Here is another fireless teakettle. Former GN RY tie plant switcher from Somers, Montana. I call this "weather blasted green." :tb-tongue:

 

Former Reading Co. "official car" No. 15. Built in 1924 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Owned by Philip Goldman while at the Los Angeles Union Station, June 2000. Car has since been donated to the Reading Co. Technical & Historical Society. It is now at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg, PA.

 

Well, as long as we're talking about green steam locomotives:

 

A fireless steam locomotive is similar to a conventional steam engine, but has a reservoir, known as a steam accumulator, instead of a boiler. They are partly filled with water and charged with steam from a stationary boiler through a hose. The locomotive can then work on the stored steam until the pressure has dropped to a minimum level, after which it must be recharged. They could not venture far from their stationary boiler. They used them in places where they had to move cars in close quarters like mines and tunnels under buildings and other underground trackage where accumulated smoke would make it impossible to work.