WW&F Railcar No. 4 (RC4) - Official Work Thread

[Mike Fox]

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Wow. I would hate to do anything to that truck. Very nice looking. It would be a shame to convert that to rail use. But if it sold for the starting price, it would be easier.

[Dwight Winkley]

Leon Weeks is fabricating the pedistals.  I am not sure if the 3 part journal boxes have arrived from the foundry. The ball bearing are in house. As is the cast brake shoes. The brake shoe keys have also been forged.

dwight

[Duncan Mackiewicz]

Mike,
You are correct. That truck is a real beauty. It would be a shame to modify it for rail use but if it was modified it would be a sweet ride on the rails.
Duncan

[Stewart "Start" Rhine]

Thanks for posting the link Mike.  Yep that truck is too nice to take apart but that's the style truck that I think would make a good work T.  As Bernie said, it would look like it's been on the railroad for years.

[Mike Fox]

Hey, I know where there is a TT we can modify.... ;DJust kidding.

[Bernie Perch]

Now that work has resumed on #9, who is working on what on the railcar?

Bernie

[Dwight Winkley]

Leon has taken both wheelsets to his home. The last I heard, we are still waiting for the journal boxes to arrive from the foundry. And the drive shaft has to be machined from bar stock.

[Jason M Lamontagne]

Dwight pretty well covered it.  Remaining work is to machine the bearing housing castings to receive the roller bearings, machine the pedestals which Leon has fabricated (very nicely, by the way), machine a new drive shaft, and fabricate a torque tube extension.  Oh- and rivet together a nice pilot (if you talk to Leon- it is NOT a pilot- it is a cow catcher!). 

Work in the shop lately has focused on finishing up some parts for No 9's throttle and dry pipe, as Gordon had discussed.

see ya
Jason

[Gordon Cook]

From what we've seen so far on the line, the pilot would probably end up as more of 'turkey scooper upper' . I haven't seen any cows of the bovine variety. There was one moose that ambled through but I'm not sure of the gender (Don't start!), and the occasional porcupine.

[James Patten]

I've seen a 2 or 3 deer in my time on the line. 

[Dwight Winkley]

The 12 Journal Box castings have arrived from the foundry.

[Nyle Buxton]

What alloy steel was used for the railcar tires and pilot wheel tires on #11?

[Jason M Lamontagne]

ASTM A-551 Grade DHT

[Vincent "Lightning" LeRow]

geesh Jason, thats a mouth-full.  How about, expensive grade, or knock-your-socks-off steel?

[Paul Horky]

No news on this project for a while. Guess it's back at Leon Weeks' for finish up and I hear leon don.t say much. So suppose it will just show up one day all done. When it does hope Steve H. is around to shoot some of his great pictures for all us folks from away to see.