WW&F No. 9 - Official Work Thread

[Brendan Barry]

Pictures from today.

The running boards and cab panels are in primer in the foreground.



Back of the tank with it's final coat of varnish.



You can see the difference between the flat black on the tank side and varnish on the rear.



Inside of the tank. Some of the new interior tank braces are sitting on the floor.



Pictures around the engine.













Vacuum ejector for the brake system.



Vacuum pots for the brakes were installed and brake plumbing done a couple weeks ago. The plumbing and pots were then removed for paint.

[Jason M Lamontagne]

That's actually the tank's first coat of varnish- it gets 2 more.

Primer, flat black, eggshell (varnish/ flat black), lettering, varnish, varnish.

Good picture report!
Jason

[Craig "Red" Heun]

It's amazing to me. After looking at this thread as well as the car barn thread and the yard thread, it not only proves to me that you guys are extremely gifted  layout men, carpenters and machinists, but gifted recreators of history. Thanks

[Mark Spremulli]

I agree, well done everyone, is there a possibility that we will get a Christmas present this year and have two steam engines for the Victorian Christmas?

[Terry W. Shirley]

I also agree totally with Craig!  And its looking more and more like it won't be long now!

[Rick Rowlands]

I am quite interested in the multi step painting of the locomotive.  This is the first time that I have heard of varnish being used on anything other than wood.  I would be interested in learning what type and brand of varnish is being used, as we may be interested in using these products on a project that we are working on down in Ohio. 

[Paul Uhland]

Rick...great to see your group preserving much of Youngstown's serious industrial history; where my relatives worked at the big Youngstown Sheet and Tube mill; where I visited in the '50s...now all gone.

[Rick Rowlands]

Thanks!  We saved a 260 ton rolling mill steam engine from Youngstown Sheet & Tube and its the centerpiece of our collection.  YS&T made a lot of seamless tubing over the years, including boiler tubes.  Now we are getting into two foot gauge in a big way, and I'm loving every bit of it!

[Brendan Barry]

Updates.

New inside sections of the running boards were made and installed. The two out side pieces that go in front of the cab are being worked on.





Cab side panels and grab irons are on.



Cab doors and window frames in primer. Outside piece of the fireman's side running board is between the doors.



Coal bunker boards were cut and mocked up.



Bunker boards in primer.



New interior tank braces were made and test fitted.



Tank interior braces on the sawhorses and hanging from the rod coated in cold galvanize. The u shaped board is the bottom coal bunker board in primer before the opening was lined with angle iron. you can also see the running boards in the background flipped over for painting the underside.

[Philip Marshall]

I've noticed in photos that No. 9 originally had short brass (?) grab irons on her cab on the SRRR, which were then replaced by the current longer grab irons sometime after the 1908 consolidation, so it's neat to see what looks like an extra hole (corresponding to the top of the original shorter grab iron) still there in the cab upright in Brendan's third picture. The original fabric of the engine has so many stories to tell.

[Stewart "Start" Rhine]

Actually, that's the hole where the seat bracket bolts on.

[john d Stone]

The SR&RL Portlands and Hinkleys seemed to be subjected to multiple cab door configurations. The original short-sided forward portion with the fold-down seat looks the same as the original WW&F 2&3 cabs. Next came the sliding door arrangement, which seems really impractical with snow and ice, let alone the potential for getting pinched. It looks like they originally mounted the rear grab iron for the doorway on the sliding door. I wouldn't want to grab that on the fly! The last/ current arrangement seems pretty good. A little more fixed forward cab for shelter and a return to the swinging door. Also, the original short brass grab irons look cute, but the later, longer thin irons are more practical for crews.

All that said, #9 looks great! You folks really do things right!

[Philip Marshall]

Yes, the door-mounted rear grab iron on the Hinkleys does look a bit suspect! It's interesting that WW&F Nos. 2 and 3 (as well as No. 8 ) kept the original short brass grab irons right to the end, except in 2 and 3's later short-cab configuration the rear grab irons were mounted on the tank. (Did they drill through the tank to mount them?)

[Brendan Barry]

The electric conduit and wiring was installed today.

The black box contains the fuses and the light switches are above the engineer's window.



Conduit feeding the gauge and water glass lights.





Electrical system was tested with 120v bulbs with a temporary connection to a shop outlet.











The train signal bell was installed this week.



The drip oiler for the valve gear eccentrics and driver bearings showed up this week. Oiler and lube line locations were worked on today.

[John McNamara]

In the photo of the "light switches above the engineer's window" can someone explain these two items in greater detail. The one closest to the tee seems rather mysterious.

-John M