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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.153.24] on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 18:23:08 :
In Reply to: Re: First Power Wagon posted by Jerry in Idaho [69.59.83.175] on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 16:11:00 :
I've seen pictures of them cutting ice out of the lake. I seem to remember they even laid temporary tracks and drove a train out onto the lake at one point. The railroad served the ice in the dining cars all the way to Chicago. I guess they didn't know about germs and pollution then.
Yeah, coal in a wood stove is a bad idea. There's a reason they use coal to smelt iron. A proper coal stove has a cast iron fire pot and a cast iron grate that slopes towards the middle. Cast iron can take more heat than rolled steel, and the air going up through the grate prevents it from overheating, plus the shape of the grate keeps the hot coal from being right up against the sides of the stove. Most of the old "wood" kitchen stoves were made to burn coal or wood, but a regular "wood stove" will get burned out in short order with coal.