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tomturkey

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Did not want to intrude on Chuck's message below. Saw on the news, either Newark or New York uses a boiler of sorts to melt some of the snow pack they get on runways and taxiways and ramps. Anyone have been around one to know how many btu's that thing in generating. Wonder how cost effective it is versus loading and hauling to a snow dump. Thought someone on here may have inside knowledge. gobble
 
That is 5he smaller one. Here is the big one. Also posting the railroad jet engine version. Melts alk of the ice out of the switches
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Here in SD we really on three sisters to do the thawing, Miss April, May and June.
 
Jeffcat; Growing up we lived very close to a rail line just going into their switch yard. Every winter they would put round metal canisters with a wick coming out of the top between the ties at the switches. They looked like huge cherry bombs. Every nite we could see the flicker of the wicks burning. Keeping the switches from freezing up. gobble
 
I have one of those. Actually it is a for real switch heater. Holds several gallons of kero. If you saw round ones they would be toledo tourches. They were used along the hi way many years ago. I have about 10 of different makes. You can see two of the tourches in this picture. The switches can freeze from ice and snow. Today the main switching yards use LP tanks and burnners. Those burners really whistle when they burn. Sounds like a whole bunch of tiny jet engines idling. I'll post a shot of the switch burner later. They would use a heck of a lot of kero in just 24hr. to keep the switches thawed.
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