Pictures from a couple of weeks ago.
Injector placement and plumbing is being worked on. The bracket holding the fireman's injector is an original Portland Company part. A bracket for the engineers side is being made in the shop.
Work on modifying the pilot brace has been completed. Just waiting on a coat of black paint for installation.
Pilot to smoke box braces are in.
Welding is still underway on the tank. Most of the tank is structurally sound except for the bottom joint in the coal bunker.
This is what the joint between the bottom and side sheets should look like. Note the nice thick side sheets riveted to a piece of angle iron. Bottom back corner fireman's side for reference.
Joint between side and bottom sheets in the coal bunker.
Welding under way to build the thin spots back up. The tank is wrought iron and was sealed with tar in the seams. Welding is difficult between the wrought iron, thin spots burning through, tar trying to burn back out, and you just can't get real clean metal. What seems to work best is make a 1st pass grind the pass clean and cover the 1st pass with a second pass keep everything water tight.