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Entries from February 2011

Friday, February 25. 2011

Steam Shop Views Posted by Robert Kutella in Steam Department at 05:05

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Again we are indebted to Roger Kramer for sending these images, taken when he visited the steam shop this week. It is a tough environment to get really good images, but I think you may be interested nevertheless.

428 Wheels

As reported elsewhere, two driver sets have been removed from UP 428 using our drop pit. Here are the guilty parties!

Naked

The locomotive lower portion shows one driver set remaining in this view, and the empty 'pocket' in the frame behind it, with the driver and bearings removed.

Support Equipment

Not all the work is on rail equipment solely, as it takes a lot of tools and other stuff to keep the wheels rolling. The shop crew is doing needed maintenance over the winter on this SULLAIR compressor.

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Fri, 07-25-2014 16:47
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Nathan about Steam Department Update 07-17-2014
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Raffi about Diesel Days line up, Sunday, July 20th, 2014
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Richard about A great week, July, 8 thur July, 12
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John Heid about Steam Department Update 07-17-2014
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Shane about Steam Department Update 07-17-2014
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Nigel is there any possibility of using rainwater in the boiler to lessen the amount of treatment that needs to be done to it?