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Work and Events / Re: WW&F No. 10 - Official Work Thread
« on: December 13, 2014, 08:58:56 PM »
The crew swapping out exhaust nozzles.



The new stack extension. The two curved pipes are the wishbone pipes coming out of the dry pipe behind the stack extension and feed the valve chests. The exhaust nozzles are next to each other in the center. Blower piping comes into the smokebox closest to the camera. The random copper tube is a temporary vacuum probe to measure differences in the drafting arrangements. Smokebox netting still has to be added. Please ignore the melted turnbuckles, I put aluminum bodied ones in by mistake.


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Work and Events / Re: WW&F No. 9 - Official Work Thread
« on: December 01, 2014, 11:03:38 PM »
Number 9 was fired up today for more testing and to supply steam to clean Number 10's tubes.












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Work and Events / Re: Car Barn - Official Work Thread
« on: December 01, 2014, 10:51:41 PM »
Car barn as of 12/1/14. Roof trusses going up this Saturday weather permitting.


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Work and Events / Re: WW&F No. 9 - Official Work Thread
« on: November 29, 2014, 09:51:47 AM »
There is sound and it was working when I just clicked on the video.

740
Work and Events / Re: WW&F No. 9 - Official Work Thread
« on: November 27, 2014, 12:32:31 AM »
Whistle video.


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Work and Events / Re: WW&F No. 9 - Official Work Thread
« on: November 26, 2014, 03:40:08 PM »
Pictures from the first steam up. A note about the pictures. I use photobucket to host my pictures and photobucket's picture resizer is not being cooperative today. So some pictures are big and some are small.

Just after lighting the fire.





Adding  more wood.









Look inside the smoke box. The copper line feeds the blower nozzle and you can just see the top of the blast pipes.



First scoop of coal.







Second scoop.



Blowing down the water glass.



Only place you can see a Portland Company locomotive hooked up to a computer.





Coal smoke in the air.







View from the car barn staging and the first tine the safety popped.





Blowing out steam passages in the cylinder castings.













Setting the valves to blow out exhaust passages.



Open the throttle and



you get rained on.



Second whistle of the day.



Rest of the pictures.






























 






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Work and Events / Re: WW&F No. 9 - Official Work Thread
« on: November 25, 2014, 10:20:36 AM »
There's coal in the firebox and pressure on the gauge.

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Work and Events / Re: Car Barn - Official Work Thread
« on: November 23, 2014, 04:06:17 PM »
Pictures taken 11/23/14. Roof trusses are scheduled to be put up in two weeks.














744
Work and Events / Re: WW&F No. 9 - Official Work Thread
« on: November 19, 2014, 07:30:28 PM »
Number 9's new ash pan has been installed.











Plumbing work.





Engineer's injector.



Fireman's injector.



Hydro testing has been ongoing to check for and correct leaks in the piping.

Torpedo heater is used to get the boiler warm.



Original Maine Central hydro pump.



Number 9's boiler pressure gauge. The small gauge above is the vacuum gauge for the brakes.



Block off plates were made for the steam inlets into the valve chest so the cylinder casting and wishbone pipes could be hydro tested.



The blocked off steam ports are under the square tubing.



Unfortunately when the cylinder castings were pressurized a hole was discovered in the fireman's side casting. The hole is under repair but the pilot and cinder clean out had to be pulled off for access.






745
Work and Events / Re: Car Barn - Official Work Thread
« on: November 09, 2014, 08:01:16 PM »
Progress as of 11/9/14.





















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Volunteers / Re: November 2014 Work Planning
« on: November 05, 2014, 06:51:56 PM »
Clean up train ran on Tuesday and cleared ten trees.

747
Work and Events / Re: Car Barn - Official Work Thread
« on: October 25, 2014, 06:21:59 PM »
Pictures from Saturday 10/25/14. All the posts for the west wall are up and the headers are all up on the east wall. The rest of the beams were unloaded from the trailer and moved closer to the work site today and the trailer was dropped off at Fred's Used Lumber Emporium to be loaded up this week.













The pile of lumber to the right of the car barn is the roof trusses.






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Work and Events / Re: Fall 2014 work weekend
« on: October 20, 2014, 10:30:34 PM »
New paint on the restrooms.





What's left of the tie pile.


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Work and Events / Re: Car Barn - Official Work Thread
« on: October 20, 2014, 10:22:23 PM »
Progress as of Thursday 10/16/14.









The hole between the posts waiting to be stood up and the restrooms was the bottomless stump pit.



Building location in relation to the yard tracks.




750
Work and Events / Re: Car Barn - Official Work Thread
« on: October 09, 2014, 03:50:28 PM »
Wall framing was loaded up at Dean's mill today and is heading north tonight.








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