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i had a big black handlebar mustache when i was a coalpasser and i ignored the basic rule of standing sideways when the fire door was open. yup! got blowback from the open door and burned 1/2 of one side of the stache. didn't realize what happened until i went up to the chadburn and everyone started ...

detroit had smoke rules for opacity(10%)when i was a coalpasser on the snyder jr. in 1960. we got fined for excess smoke and the picture the city sent to shenango was so smoky from the plant that you couldn't even see our stack! meanwhile , all the brass on the boat was turning purple and we were ...

I just posted a picture of the schoonmaker on boatnerd facebook taken in Ashtabula harbor. the date is unknown, and I think my dad took the picture as he worked in the area. it shows no flying bridge, and probably had scotch boilers, but if anyone knows when the flying bridge was added, let me know ...