Mr King Posted May 22, 2013 Author Posted May 22, 2013 I wonder what they do with that lumber. That stuff is worth lots of $$$$.
Mr King Posted May 22, 2013 Author Posted May 22, 2013 Now this is a damn awesome bathroom https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=2YK5_y1LzHk
Mr King Posted June 6, 2013 Author Posted June 6, 2013 Stuart were most British steam engines painted glossy colors, unlike most of their American cousins who tended to be as dark black as the coal feeding them?
rmgill Posted June 6, 2013 Posted June 6, 2013 Southern had a green livery. NS still has some heritage units painted this way.
rmgill Posted June 6, 2013 Posted June 6, 2013 It's a sharp color scheme. SOU 4610 is actually a NS Heritage unit. Still in operation. SOU 6901 is a static display at our local museum.And SOU 8202 one of our normal runners but is currently shopped for some major overhaul work. Trucks are off for reprofiling the wheels and we're doing lots of other work on it.
Mr King Posted June 7, 2013 Author Posted June 7, 2013 I hope nobody minds me posting up videos of my work. This is a review some chap did of Marias pass, my last project. Nice work Stuart.
rmgill Posted June 14, 2013 Posted June 14, 2013 Did they normally have insulation under that sheet metal?
rmgill Posted June 14, 2013 Posted June 14, 2013 (edited) Our Heavy Pacific, A&WP 290 at SERM has the cladding off and the insulation was taken off too to expose the boiler for sonogram thickness measuring. One of these days we'll have enough money to have the boiler repaired to put it under pressure again. Edited June 14, 2013 by rmgill
rmgill Posted June 14, 2013 Posted June 14, 2013 Nice looking machine, what is that, 2 Cylinder Pacific? I'm not sure. I'll have to ask Dale. I'm not sure if that's a compound setup or part of the Valve gear. One of the things slowing us down on some projects is that the Bld 3 structure is partially damaged. There was a fire there before we occupied it and we can't use the bridge cranes in the front part of the shops. You can see the one of the fire damaged Column in the above photo, second from the right. She was running in good order but needed to be shopped due to questions on the boiler. The begging of this video is very close to where I'm sitting right now. I can look out of my window
rmgill Posted June 14, 2013 Posted June 14, 2013 As you work in preservation, you may find this interesting.http://www.national-preservation.com/ I'll take a look. I really ought to consider volunteering for a railway society. Not sure Id be able to make much time for it working weekends thought. You should. Even if you're there to help for a few days out of the year it's hours spent towards that goal. I mostly do work at the museum working on facilities and support issues in Building 3 so the folks who do the restoration can spend more time on that and less time screwing around finding tools or fixing tools. Re you loco, is that an Oil Burner? I idly think we in the UK are going to have to seriously consider moving towards conversion to oil burning. A couple of narrow gauge lines did temporarily a few years back when the price of coal went through the roof.Nope. 290 is a coal burner. She has the screw type mechanical stoker for automatically feeding coal to the firebox. That's laying about the shops someplace on a pallet.
MiloMorai Posted June 15, 2013 Posted June 15, 2013 Stuart, you might find this web site of interest,http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/ Lots of photos rmgill, there is a spec sheet for 290http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/awp/awp-s290cd.gif
rmgill Posted June 15, 2013 Posted June 15, 2013 I think the mechanical stokers make sense for the large US locomotives as they allow an even control of the rate of stoking and you're better able to control the draft into the firebox that way. There's also the distance of some routes. Even our oil burners kept a fireman.
MiloMorai Posted June 17, 2013 Posted June 17, 2013 Fascinating Stuart. One wunders how they managed 'back in the day' without computers and CNC machines to build these locos.
Colin Posted June 17, 2013 Posted June 17, 2013 Because forms creation software did not exist and neither did powerpoint. looking back at old files you realize people were far more economical about words and opinion.
rmgill Posted June 17, 2013 Posted June 17, 2013 We have a rail car full of the diagrams and drawings of parts for various locomotives out of the South Eastern region, more or less things we got from Southern, Seaboard, A&WP and others plus donations from third parties. Had we the foundry and men plus machine tools aplenty, we could start building a new Heavy Pacific or rebuilding more of what we have. ...All we need is $$$$$$$$$$.
rmgill Posted June 20, 2013 Posted June 20, 2013 (edited) Solid ingots? Weren't those things usually forged? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrVO0-0S_Ng Edited June 20, 2013 by rmgill
rmgill Posted June 20, 2013 Posted June 20, 2013 These also came up on my search...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0bToe9DKFo
rmgill Posted June 20, 2013 Posted June 20, 2013 (edited) https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwp&v=5SEicpqdumIYorkshire accents in this one no? Edited June 20, 2013 by rmgill
rmgill Posted July 4, 2013 Posted July 4, 2013 Solid ingots? Weren't those things usually forged? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrVO0-0S_NgYes they used to be cast.Today they find it easier to cut the whole thing from the solid using a (My fathers the engineer so I cant remember) a plasma cutter if I remember right, then machine the shape afterwards. Its quicker and make its less likely to suffer cracking I would think. If I remember rightly this is the method being used on Beachy Head.http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/locos/atlantic/latest.html I would think for things like the driving rods they'd have to be forged for strength. Casting just isn't going to have the same strength I think. If cut from a single piece of steel, they'd be better if it was a forged bit of bar first.
rmgill Posted July 4, 2013 Posted July 4, 2013 (edited) Casting isn't as strong as forging. It comes down to grain structure. Casting has, when you cut into it, grains structure sort of like sand. It has very short boundaries. Forging spreads those grains out in a linear fashion so you have smaller grains that are linear in the direction of the length of the forging process. It also removes porosity and the grains end up being smaller and tighter. A forged steel part will always be stronger than a cast part of the same size/shape/construction.This site explains some of the points in more detail.http://www.sssforge.com/ygzz.asp Edited July 4, 2013 by rmgill
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