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Work and Events / WW&F No. 10 - Official Work Thread

« on: September 18, 2008, 03:42:07 PM »

I've been working on refurbishing the spare Metropolitan injector for # 10 and can report pretty good progress.
For those who have pondered the magic that occurs inside of one of these devices here is a picture of it in pieces:

As you can see there's a lot going on in there!

The shiny parts are the two new tubes that I made to replace the damaged old ones. The internal valves which control the steam flow have been refinished and I'll be renewing a couple of the outside linkage parts to reduce the play.

Hopefully in a couple of weeks our fireman's side injector will no longer be the PITA that it is now.

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General Discussion / Re: How's this for turntables?!

« on: September 15, 2008, 04:50:00 PM »

Hmmmm, VErrrry interesting!!

Looks a little tippy, though.  Homemade? Are they portable? Many questions, but wouldn't that be fun!!

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Work and Events / Re: Moving Rail and Ties

« on: September 15, 2008, 11:26:57 AM »

Dana,
I hope your back is better by the work weekend.  We'd really miss your voice saying "side of the care....lift....north.....
Duncan

Actually, having experienced Dana's authoritative voice this past Saturday lining track, I'm not sure if we'll all be missing it too much by the end of the track weekend. 

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General Discussion / Re: WW&F volunteer sighting...

« on: September 10, 2008, 07:38:16 AM »

And just about when that picture was taken, the engineer cleared the cylinders and I got a shower! A little more water than #10 spits out, that's for sure.
Bernie, the bell looks great, wonderful to see it, and your place.
A nice ride, too bad it rained on the way back, but Jim Thorpe (or M. C. if you prefer) is sweet, some nice restaurants, shops, and inns. Lots of trains in that area, a lot to see.
The 425 puts on a loud show, we were in the 4th car and she was very audible.



Wayne and Kitty and their friends Don and Judy on the train. Don's into steamboats, and he told me about a meet in Boston on  Sept. 20 and 21'st, which will be at the Galleria Mall in Cambridge around lunch.

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Work and Events / Re: Moving Rail and Ties

« on: September 09, 2008, 08:53:15 AM »

I'll be there Sat. AM, around 9 or so. See you then.

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Work and Events / Re: Track Work

« on: August 27, 2008, 06:16:30 PM »

For the record, two fifteen foot long 'equalizer' rails were moved to Sheepscot by Steve Z last week to be drilled, then transported back north and spiked down at the end of track on Saturday by an energetic and, might I say, very talented crew!! 
This put the joints back in alignment and also out of the way of the next grade crossing.

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Museum Discussion / Re: WEATHER

« on: August 08, 2008, 10:49:41 AM »

Last weekend we had some lovely thunderstorms on Sunday morning, with drenching rain and several 'flash-boom!' lightning flashes up at Alna Center. Our intrepid train men never flinched, however.
I remarked that I was a little nervous being around all that nice, conductive metal, but was reminded that you never hear about trains hit by lightning. Anyone care to comment on that? I have read that being in the water is a very bad thing around thunderstorms, so I'm not sure why being on tracks that extend for miles and sitting on a steam engine would be relatively benign.

Gawdon

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General Discussion / Re: Not narrow gauge, but way cool...

« on: August 07, 2008, 08:53:14 AM »

Bernie,
I finished it up late and completely forgot to take a picture. Perhaps Stephen or James will take some pics of it this weekend and post them.
The background for now is all black. There was some discussion a while ago about using red around the number, and we can always do that later if that's the consensus.
It looks great, and will look even better mounted on #11's smokebox!!

Gawdon

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General Discussion / Re: Not narrow gauge, but way cool...

« on: August 04, 2008, 09:15:52 AM »

We have another important piece of #11 which is now at the museum. Bernie completed a number plate last year, and after some 'aging' in my shop it is buffed and painted and ready for display. So check it out when you get there.



Gawdon