Mr Union Pacific posted:That is a really cool looking locomotive. Studying the pics, it looks like they just turned the cab around. I notice it is a coal burner, so how in the world did they get the coal into the firebox.
No. NONE of the Southern Pacific cab forward steam locomotives were coal burners. They were ALL oil burning, for VERY obvious reasons.
It looks to me like the firebox is located in the same position as most other steam locomotives, so the coal would have to travel the entire length of the boiler to reach the firebox? I would guess some sort of screw mechanism? Very interesting indeed.
