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A few things: Dear Jamie, Why is it embarassing that 844 was helping freight???? It's one heck of a locomotive, and was doing something it was meant to do. Dear Leon, It takes us about 8 hours to steam the VC 2 up. If you really wanted to go slow with the heating, then sure, 24 hours. You could fire a locomotive up in less time, but that would be pretty hard. 8 hours seems to be widely used, so it can't be to rough, and it's a lot better to steam down the boiler to wash and service it than it is to just leave it running without servicing. At 1-2 psi per minute, it takes us about 2 hours to build up to operating pressure (175 psi). Of course, the first 10 pounds is the hardest. Once you get to 50 psi, you can start steaming up the locomotive with its own systems (and the injectors start working). We usually steam up the night before operating. You can't really bank an oil fire, per se, but what you can do is stack the cap, close the dampers, and when you come back the next morning, the firebox should be hot enough to spontaneously ignite oil (even on a cold night). It would be dangerous to burn the oil without monitoring the water level--tends to lead to big kabooms! Sincerely, Daniel Parks
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