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Boring for New Wrist Pins
Saturday, December 10, 2011
When we got the locomotive, the rods were removed and the wrist pins on the drivers coated with a layer of grease. Over the years the grease deteriorated and the pins rusted more... |
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Boring for New Wrist Pins
Saturday, December 10, 2011
When we got the locomotive, the rods were removed and the wrist pins on the drivers coated with a layer of grease. Over the years the grease deteriorated and the pins rusted more... |
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Backhead Plumbing
Sunday, October 2, 2011
As a bit of a diversion from the installation of staybolts, we have been working at the task if fitting parts and plumbing on the backhead. Parts that have been more... |
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The Cab is in Place
Sunday, September 25, 2011
We put the cab in place on the boiler prior to the September 10th Open House so that folks could get a better feel for the overall appearance of the more... |
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Backhead Staybolts Complete
Sunday, August 14, 2011
One staybolt at a time, pretty soon all the holes are more... |
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Then Tighten 'er Down
Saturday, August 13, 2011
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Copper Gasket Too
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Each staybolt cap gets a copper more... |
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Putting Caps in the Sleeves
Saturday, August 13, 2011
We machined new caps for the more... |
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New Sleeves for Flexible Staybolts
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Once the new sleeve is tacked in place it must be welded all around. John makes quick work of each more... |
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New Sleeves for Flexible Staybolts
Saturday, April 9, 2011
New sleeves are required for the flexible staybolts on the portions of the boiler that were repaired. A special jig was made to enable the new sleeve to be held in position more... |
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Flexible Staybolts are Next
Saturday, March 19, 2011
All of the fixed staybolts are in and about half are peened over, both inside and out. Next must weld on the new sleeves for the flexible more... |
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Backing up the staybolts while peening
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
When peening the staybolts a backer is needed behind the staybolt. We divised this little device that spans the firebox and enables one person to complete the more... |
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Staybolt Test Installation
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Before we inserted the fixed staybolts in the boiler, we set up a test fixture to practice peening over the ends of the more... |
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Flexible Staybolt Sleeves Prepared
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Fixed staybolts have been threaded into the backhead and the outer staybolt positions have been reamed to prepare for welding in the sockets for the flexible staybolts. more... |
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Caulking the Firebox Seam
Saturday, December 11, 2010
In riveted steel boiler construction, caulking is the process of rendering a seam watertight by driving a thick, blunt chisel-like tool into the plate adjacent to the seam. This has the more... |
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Caulking the Firebox Seam
Saturday, December 11, 2010
In riveted steel boiler construction, caulking is the process of rendering a seam watertight by driving a thick, blunt chisel-like tool into the plating adjacent to the seam. This has the more... |
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Tapping for Stay Bolts
Friday, November 19, 2010
Once we had completed the riveting of the mud ring we began to tap and install the stay bolts. An air motor is used to turn the stay bolt tap to simultaneously cut threads in more... |
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Blind Rivets
Sunday, October 24, 2010
In the corners of the boiler there is not room enough for all of the rivets to go through the mud ring. Therefore a number of them are threaded into blind holes in the more... |
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Blind Rivets
Sunday, October 24, 2010
In the corners of the boiler there is not room enough for all of the rivets to go through the mud ring. Therefore a number of them are threaded into blind holes in the more... |
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Blind Rivets
Sunday, October 24, 2010
In the corners of the boiler there is not room enough for all of the rivets to go through the mud ring. Therefore a number of them are threaded into blind holes in the more... |
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Surfacing the Stay Bolt Sleeves
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Using a special-built tool, we are able to surface the face of the flexible staybolt sleeves. This will enable a good seal. There will be a copper gasket under the cap that more... |
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Surfacing the Stay Bolt Sleeves
Saturday, October 9, 2010
We built the tool specifically for this job. It screws onto the staybolt sleeves and the shaft is turned with a hand drill. The grindstone surfaces the face of the more... |
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Surfacing the Stay Bolt Sleeves
Saturday, October 9, 2010
In order to create a right angle surface on the face of the sleeve the cutting stone must be trued more... |
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Riveting the Mudring
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Once the Riveter was strengthened we proceeded to "fill" holes. This series of photos illustrates the riveting more... |
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Riveting the Mudring
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Once the Riveter was strengthened we proceeded to "fill" holes. This series of photos illustrates the riveting more... |
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Riveting the Mudring
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Once the Riveter was strengthened we proceeded to "fill" holes. This series of photos illustrates the riveting more... |
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Riveting the Mudring
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Once the Riveter was strengthened we proceeded to "fill" holes. This series of photos illustrates the riveting more... |
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Riveting the Mudring
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Once the Riveter was strengthened we proceeded to "fill" holes. This series of photos illustrates the riveting more... |
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Riveting the Mudring
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Once the Riveter was strengthened we proceeded to "fill" holes. This series of photos illustrates the riveting more... |
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Riveting the Mudring
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Once the Riveter was strengthened we proceeded to "fill" holes. This series of photos illustrates the riveting process. Here we see the beam that we used to carry the more... |
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The Riveter wasn't big enough
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Shortly after completing the Hydraulic Riveter we put it to the test forming rivets in the mudring. After just a couple of rivets the clamp began to deform. The steel in the more... |
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The Hydraulic Riveter
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Since we got the firebox into the boiler, we have also spent a lot of time building a hydraulic riveter - a big clamp to squeeze the rivets in place as they will be too long more... |
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Preparing to rivet the mudring
Saturday, March 27, 2010
This is a series of photos showing the preparation necessary prior to riveting the mudring in place. The rivets need to be flush on the inside in order that firebrick more... |
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Preparing to rivet the mudring
Saturday, March 27, 2010
This is a series of photos showing the preparation necessary prior to riveting the mudring in place. The rivets need to be flush on the inside in order that firebrick more... |
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Preparing to rivet the mudring
Saturday, March 27, 2010
This is a series of photos showing the preparation necessary prior to riveting the mudring in place. The rivets need to be flush on the inside in order that firebrick more... |
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Preparing to rivet the mudring
Saturday, March 27, 2010
This is a series of photos showing the preparation necessary prior to riveting the mudring in place. The rivets need to be flush on the inside in order that firebrick more... |
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Firebox is inside the Boiler
Saturday, January 16, 2010
The weekend of January 9-10, 2010 marked another major step in the restoration of SMV 21. The entire boiler was raised up on cribbing so that the new firebox could be rolled more... |
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The Firebox goes in (photo sequence)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
In order to get the firebox into place we raised the entire boiler on cribbing. We lifted the smokebox and each back corner a few inches at a time using our overhead more... |
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The Firebox goes in (photo sequence)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
In order to get the firebox into place we raised the entire boiler on cribbing. We lifted the smokebox and each back corner a few inches at a time using the overhead more... |
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The Firebox goes in (photo sequence)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
In order to get the firebox into place we raised the entire boiler on cribbing. We lifted the smokebox and each back corner a few inches at a time using our overhead more... |
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The Firebox goes in (photo sequence)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
The firebox was ready and waiting with the mudring pinned in place on it. Next step was to lower it down onto four pieces of pipe so it can be rolled into more... |
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The Firebox goes in (photo sequence)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
We eased the firebox up to the boiler while still hanging on the crane, then down on the rollers it more... |
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The Firebox goes in (photo sequence)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
And then we rolled it in. It really did fit - without significant more... |
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The Firebox goes in (photo sequence)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
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The Firebox goes in (photo sequence)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
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The Firebox goes in (photo sequence)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Once the boiler was back down to a managable height we attached lifting rings to the firebox so that we could lift it up the last couple of more... |
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The Firebox goes in (photo sequence)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Once the boiler was back down to a managable height we attached lifting rings to the firebox so that we could lift it up the last couple of more... |
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The Firebox goes in (photo sequence)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
As we raised the firebox we had to ease the mudring into the boiler - a very tight fit. We were able to get it started in on most of the way around and at the end of the day more... |
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New equilizer beam machined
Friday, December 18, 2009
One of the four equilizer bars for #21 was missing so we have been machining a new one. This has been a fill-in project on the large horizontal milling machine in the shop. more... |
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Working on the new equilizer beam
Friday, December 18, 2009
One of the four equilizer bars for #21 was missing so we have been machining a new one. This has been a fill-in project on the large horizontal milling machine in the shop. more... |
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FRA inspector visits the shop
Monday, December 7, 2009
On December 7th we were visited by Gary Groff and his assistant Howard Gehrke. Mr. Groff is the Steam Locomotive Inspector for the Federal Railroad Administration Region 8. more... |
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Rebuilding the Lead Truck
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Rebuilding #21's lead truck has been one of our recent projects. It had been extensively modified and in a pretty haphazard way. The upright pedestals are not original and came off more... |
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Rebuilding the Lead Truck
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Here we have temporarily placed the "Rolling Swing Arms" and the square stock "rails" on the front of the lead truck for visualization purposes. There was more... |
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Rebuilding the Lead Truck
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Here is a close-up of #21's blueprint showing the front truck as originally planned. The two 9" long heart shaped arms hanging down are the "rockers". more... |
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Rebuilding the Lead Truck
Saturday, September 5, 2009
This closeup photo shows the fireman's side of the lead truck with the journal box (black casting) sitting on the brass which contains babbit material that rides on the more... |
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Rebuilding the Lead Truck
Saturday, September 5, 2009
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Oil Tank Painted
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Here is the oil tank inside Lektro's state of the art paint booth with a shiny new coat of black Imron paint. It has since been moved back to our shop where over the more... |
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Newly painted water tank leaves Lektro
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
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Water tank comes out of the paint booth
Monday, August 25, 2008
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Kelly is done painting,
Sunday, August 24, 2008
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The black Imron goes on nicely
Sunday, August 24, 2008
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Primer coat wasn't smooth enough
Saturday, August 23, 2008
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Actually it was badly orangepeeled!
Saturday, August 23, 2008
And if the orangepeel wasn't enough, the paint wasn't completely cured despite the heat that was applied in the spray booth. So we carefully sanded as best we could. We more... |
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Restored Tender Frame goes on its Trucks
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
A red letter day for the tender restoration. Dan Hess hauled the restored and freshly painted tender frame from the POA boatyard to the tracks adjacent to the Red Lion. more... |
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Tender frame at Red Lion
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
A red letter day for the tender restoration. The restored and freshly painted tender frame was lifted onto its trucks - back on the rails. more... |
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Tender frame up and over
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
A red letter day for the tender restoration. The restored and freshly painted tender frame was lifted onto its trucks - back on the rails. more... |
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Tender frame eased onto trucks
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
A red letter day for the tender restoration. The restored and freshly painted tender frame was lifted onto its trucks - back on the rails. more... |
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Water tank goes off for a new paint job.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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Water tank goes off for a new paint job.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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Casey is oh-so-tired.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
The restored and freshly painted tender frame is back on the rails and near the restoration shop where it will receive a new timber deck. After the water tank is painted it more... |
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Water tank almost ready for paint
Sunday, August 10, 2008
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Paint touch up for tender truck
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Both tender trucks have now been assembled and we are getting ready to move them to the track where they will meet up again with the frame. While we had nice weather John took more... |
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Half round added to combing edge
Sunday, July 27, 2008
All of the tank structure is complete so it is time for the decorative touches. This half round is shaped to fit the combing edge and will be riveted in place. Sealant has more... |
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The combing half-round has been riveted
Sunday, July 27, 2008
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Finished combing half-round
Sunday, July 27, 2008
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Forge Anyone?
Saturday, July 26, 2008
This little gem got a lot of use as each and every one of the hundreds of rivets in the tender was heated within its brick lined walls. more... |
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Oil Tank Repairs
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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Oil Tank Repairs
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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Oil Tank Repairs
Sunday, July 6, 2008
A number of rivets in the oil tank were badly corroded and needed to be replaced. Here Casey is grinding off the heads of those rivets before punching them out so that more... |
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Oil Tank Repairs
Sunday, July 6, 2008
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Ready and Waiting
Sunday, June 22, 2008
These are the wheels for the leading and trailing trucks. They have been cleaned and painted and they await space and time in the shop where the trucks will be assembled. more... |
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Staybolt Anyone?
Sunday, June 22, 2008
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Tender trucks assembled
Saturday, June 7, 2008
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New Water Tank Ready for Sandblast
Saturday, May 31, 2008
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Tender brake cylinder reworked
Saturday, May 24, 2008
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Tender tool box gets a new paint job
Saturday, May 24, 2008
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Tender truck assembly
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
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Old Water Tank Rusted Through
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Here is a good shot of the engineers side of the SMV #21's tender water tank showing some of the holes that have rusted through. It is pretty obvious from this more... |
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Tender Sits in Storage
Monday, May 30, 2005
While we worked at restoring #21, her tender waited patiently for her turn in the shop. Finally in 2005 we obtained an Oregon Heritage Foundation matching fund grant to restore more... |
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Crown Sheet Removal
Wednesday, December 4, 2002
Here is an rare view of the top of the firebox crown sheet from inside the boiler, looking to the rear. We are in the process of flame cutting the radial crown staybolts more... |
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Machining the Throttle Body
Thursday, August 29, 2002
Here the throttle body is "chucked up" in a vertical turret lathe to cut new seats. This is the position the throttle mounts in the dome and its easy to see how the more... |
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Machining the Throttle Spool
Thursday, August 29, 2002
The throttle spool is in our tracer lathe, having just had the two seats cut. They are the shiny bands near the right and left ends. Both seats were cut at a 20-degree angle more... |
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Tapping Washout Plug Holes
Thursday, August 22, 2002
There are four washout holes, located just above the mudring in the new section of the backhead (There are 15 or so of these holes throughout the entire boiler). Their purpose more... |
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Dry Pipe Cut
Thursday, August 8, 2002
#21 is fitted with a Ruston Balanced Throttle which is located in the steam dome. This is the large dome in the middle which is easily seen in all the photos. It is more... |
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Firebox Door Sheet Flanged
Tuesday, July 16, 2002
The entire flanging process can be seen in this photo. Notice how the new sheet is clamped to the old sheet/die near to the edges to be formed. Besides using ARPA’s one million BTU more... |
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Firebox Door Sheet Ready to Flange
Saturday, July 13, 2002
The firebox door sheet gets its final preparations before flanging. Seams between the extensions were welded up by John and Stuart. more... |
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Outer Wrapper Patches Welded
Friday, July 5, 2002
The sides of the boiler wrapper down low and under the cab wasted away from outside. A new patch panel was cut bent and drilled. And is now being welded in place. The bolts more... |
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Firebox Door Sheet Die Corners Added
Saturday, June 29, 2002
The old riveted firebox has seams where the sheets overlapped over each other. The door sheet was against the mudring extending about one inch past the seam, tapering down to more... |
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Firebox Door Sheet Formed
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
John Niemann heats the doorway hole in the firebox door sheet before bringing the 600 ton press down to complete the forming of the more... |
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Come Ring the Bell
Sunday, May 19, 2002
#21 bell was stolen in the early 1980’s while the locomotive was stored in Northern California. While ARPA is still looking for #21 original bell, the bell you see was more... |
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Mudring Rivet Removal
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
Having removed the firebox flue sheet, we now have to remove the mudring. This means driving out a couple of hundred 7/8” diameter rivets about 6 inches long. In the old more... |
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Mudring Rivets Get Drilled
Monday, April 29, 2002
Casey Cochran tries out ARPA’s recently acquired magnetic base drill, which was purchased with funds from recent fund raisers. The mag drill weighs about 90 pounds so Dennis Guyon more... |
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Students from AHS help
Saturday, March 9, 2002
A group of students from Astoria High School's "Club de Union Juvenil" helped to clean out the inside of SPS 273 shortly after it arrived in Astoria. more... |
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Backhead Doorway Flanged
Thursday, March 7, 2002
We have started to form the new manhole doorway in the new backhead. The female die was bolted to the bottom of the new backhead plate. The die was then clamped to a platen. more... |
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Flanging the Backhead
Tuesday, June 5, 2001
Work on the back of the boiler is progressing carefully and steadily. We have built a die to flange the compound radius bends in the backhead (outside, back of the more... |
