Originally Posted by Hot Water:
First let me stated that during the regular days of steam, there is NO WAY that the insides of a boiler, on a class one main line railroad, would EVER get that bad!
Ha! You should have seen the inside of SP #1744's boiler when it was removed from the museum in Corrinne, UT. Wheelbarrows full of hard scale. Removing a washout plug was like cutting a hole in the bottom of a jumbo bag of Doritos.