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Re: Engine House - Official Work Thread
« Reply #465 on: September 07, 2024, 09:37:39 PM »
why the fan when the doors are right there? seems a waste with the smoke jacks in place and cooler air coming in from under the doors. how much difference can a fan that size make?
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« Reply #466 on: September 08, 2024, 06:31:38 AM »
why the fan when the doors are right there? seems a waste with the smoke jacks in place and cooler air coming in from under the doors. how much difference can a fan that size make?

As a youngster, I can remember helping my father fire up cold steamers at Edaville. He liked to get the fire boxes full of pine and douse the wood with a coffee can full of kerosene. He'd put a match to his preparations and then open the engine house doors to cold and blow. With fireboxes crackling and producing thick smoke, one of the G.E. diesels would push the locomotives outside.

Dad would get his rags, oil and check that the required tools were within each engine. We'd rake cinders when the power was outside. It always amazed me how long it took to clear the wood smoke from the inside peak of the house.

Another day, years later at the W.W. & F. Ry.,  I remember starting the Brookville up in bay one, at the north end. I was planning on letting the engine idle for a moment and got down to see if there was any coffee left in (what was then) "the bay one cafe". As I started to walk for the coffee pot, I heard a tiny little sneeze. I looked up over the Brookville and saw a red squirrel sitting on a purlin. I opened the doors to clear out the exhaust, which produced a chill wind. The squirell tucked into a nest of insulation to escape the cold. That little guy was a sort of mascot for a time.
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« Reply #467 on: September 08, 2024, 02:13:09 PM »
Bruce, did anyone else see the squirrel?  ::) :D

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« Reply #468 on: September 08, 2024, 04:44:55 PM »
Bruce, did anyone else see the squirrel?  ::) :D
The squirrel was last seen in the Hancock, Maine, area hanging out with the duck only visible to Jason.


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« Reply #469 on: September 08, 2024, 05:14:24 PM »
Bruce, did anyone else see the squirrel?  ::) :D

I think Clarissa's cat "Buttercup" may have caught a glimpse. John Bradbury gave me the stink eye when I opened the door...
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« Reply #470 on: September 08, 2024, 05:16:14 PM »
Bruce, did anyone else see the squirrel?  ::) :D
The squirrel was last seen in the Hancock, Maine, area hanging out with the duck only visible to Jason.

Perhaps the descendents of each are still plotting revenge...
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Re: Engine House - Official Work Thread
« Reply #471 on: September 09, 2024, 05:38:24 PM »
why the fan when the doors are right there? seems a waste with the smoke jacks in place and cooler air coming in from under the doors. how much difference can a fan that size make?

The hoods only catch smoke from the stack, steam from the generator and other sources just goes up to the ceiling. The steam cloud fills the building up fast even with a door open.  Saturday the exhaust fan sucked the steam out of the west side of the building while the east side filled up. When the two fans are running on high the air in the building shoud change every 8 minutes.







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« Reply #472 on: September 10, 2024, 05:47:46 PM »
Interior of bay 3 primed for paint.





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« Reply #473 on: September 10, 2024, 09:36:30 PM »
Looks good

Has anyone thought about Pressed Tin for the ceiling?

It was an Old Timey method of fire resistance.

And yes I know the authentic is not cheap but maybe corrugated iron?

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« Reply #474 on: September 11, 2024, 06:16:41 AM »
Looks good

Has anyone thought about Pressed Tin for the ceiling?

It was an Old Timey method of fire resistance.

And yes I know the authentic is not cheap but maybe corrugated iron?

Could also do some steel ceiling tiles from Home Depot or Lowes. They're not as expensive as tin, and they have high availability.

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« Reply #475 on: September 11, 2024, 07:08:25 AM »
There is supposed to be some sort of tin or metal ceiling, or at least that is the latest plan..
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« Reply #476 on: September 11, 2024, 07:47:12 AM »
Could also do some steel ceiling tiles from Home Depot or Lowes. They're not as expensive as tin, and they have high availability.

I think that is what was meant. Many things that used to be made of tin no longer are, but have kept the name. Tin foil, Tin can, Tin roof, Pressed tin ceiling... I even refer to sheet metal shrouds on machinery as "tins", despite never having been manufactured as such.

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« Reply #477 on: September 28, 2024, 04:07:08 PM »
So glad to see the inside of the Engine House painted white.  Very prototypical except for the use of the modern coatings instead of the traditional white wash.