#4 IS BACK!!!!

[Hansel Fardon]

For the past few weeks, the steam crew secretly snuck #4 back into the engine house, preformed a UT, and passed a hydro which was approved by the FRA. #4 IS BACK FOR POLAR EXPRESS!

She is now wearing a B&M 3-Chime, which is on loan from Conway Scenic! (IT SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL!!) And Bill even made a new whistle chord!

My Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE1tSfOOQfE&list=UUU0BM_sf1EUz6eNojV9C5Sw

[Tom Casper]

Thanks Hansel for posting.  Great dusk shots you got there.

Tom C.

[John McNamara]

Great news Hansel! Congratulations to you and the rest of the crew :-)
-John

[Mike Fox]

Why, may I ask, is the very first thing you show in your video the picture of someone attacking it with a torch? I thought you were trying to save it, not butcher it...

[Hansel Fardon]

The stubs were left on after the pilot was cut off. I actually wanted the stubs grinded off so it would look more like a monson engine (and be a safer engine). Now it just needs black paint to cover up the exposed metal.

[Bill Sample]

Nice video - good to see no. 4 awake again. Thanks for sharing this, Hansel.

[Mike Fox]

Hansel, I was being sarcastic. I knew what they were doing, but the torch is the enemy of the steam locomotive. I hate seeing any part of one cut with one. ?

[Hansel Fardon]

Oh, oops! My sarcasm detector wasn't working.

Unfortunately, Edaville welded the fake pilot right onto the original metal.

[James Patten]

How did MNG get all those young volunteers?

[Tom Casper]

cookies & milk

Tom C.

[Bill Piche]

How did MNG get all those young volunteers?

cookies & milk

Tom C.

Not far off... 

In all seriousness, though, we've been trolling the live steam clubs for volunteers. Turns out there's quite a bit of knowledge in some of these kids that they've been picking up for years from older live steamers.