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Thanks for posting these; very interesting.

Outstanding series of photos. Very informative also. I especially like #3 with the swinging hammer.

JMW
http://www.waidephoto.com

Great set of photos!

Curious if you will be dropping all the drivers and re-babbitting all of the bearing surfaces, now that you know the wear exhibited on the #2 axle?

Really fine work on the pictures, Chris -- thanks for posting!

Great series. Thanks for taking the time to share them.

Great to see this kind work being done with an organized and focused crew. With a couple of days spent on good planning, jobs that were routine in the railroad shops can still be done as such. These things just don't take years to get done.

PS: (The boiler certificate is called 'Form 4' because it can take 4 months, not 4 centuries.)

Chris, I really like the shot where the rods are being lowered. You positioned yourself right up against one of the engine's drivers, looking out -- avoiding a shot of people's "backsides." That's great work.

What are you using for a camera?

Thanks,
Stephen

jmw Wrote:
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> Outstanding series of photos. Very informative
> also. I especially like #3 with the swinging
> hammer.
>
> JMW
> http://www.waidephoto.com

Yes indeed outstanding and informative. Are you sure its not a baseball bat? It looks like Mike is hitting a home run!

Phil

Very educational series of photos !!

I hope other steam RR groups document their inspections & repairs so nicely.

I try to do that while we're exploring restoring our steamers at the Pacific Southwest RR museum (www.psrm.org) outside San Diego !

Mike

Great photos as usual, Chris. Check out the number of guys posed in front of the locomotive in the last shot. Do all those guys work on the 4449 crew?

Jim Burrill
Loveland, CO

Great stuff, always fun seeing Doyle and crew at work!

F40PHR231 Wrote:
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> 12) The preliminary inspection shows no issues
> with the brass or axle, just a babbitt
> replacement. A group shot wrapped up the safe and
> efficient work session!

All right, ID the P&W employees in the photo!

PW#1 Bruce Carswell, George (well, he was once), Bob S, Randy J (RH foreman), Shane (RH supervisor), uh, the list goes on...

It is great to see her in Albany!

Roustabout out

Boy, those are impressive. It just illustrates that there's nothing lightweight about steam locomotive maintenance! To think that that stuff used to be done routinely, every day, in a ton of different shops. Is the P&W drop table left over from steam days? Must be, to handle those 80 inch drivers. Hmm, Doyle looks pretty greasy. He sure takes care of his "baby."

Hey all you guys ! thanks for keeping our favorite engine alive . my personal appreciation comes from every time the 4449 came to Oakland ,i was on duty, on the crew that got to handle it from 16st or at the diesal shop ,or watching it roll bye like in76 handling it in the eighties and nineties i wish we still had the 16st station to use, oakland needs a historic place for those beautiful engines and trains to come and be appreciated . getting a chance to be part of the handling of that history make a job special. keep up the good work . Edward Timmerman

nycman Wrote:
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> Boy, those are impressive. It just illustrates
> that there's nothing lightweight about steam
> locomotive maintenance! To think that that stuff
> used to be done routinely, every day, in a ton of
> different shops. Is the P&W drop table left over
> from steam days? Must be, to handle those 80 inch
> drivers. Hmm, Doyle looks pretty greasy. He sure
> takes care of his "baby."


The P&W drop table was new construction. P&W? Steam days? These are P&W's steam days!

F40PHR231 Wrote:
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> Since it's common to mark such components with the date
> they were serviced, the stamp on this axle
> indicated this babbitt was poured during March,
> 1955 in the SP shops of Los Angeles.

First off thanks for posting.

Question> Any other stamped parts with dates and locations?
Rods were real common. AC-12 4294 has noticeable stampings of service work done and dates on her rods.

Hammer swinging shot is a contest photo for WR 2008 Chris...

Dave

How much does the axle weigh?

"...The P&W drop table was new construction..."

Actually the table was originally a tender truck table from the original Portland Terminal roundhouse (circa 1910) heavily modified before installation in the "new" P&W shop in 1994. The table was shortened with the ram lengthened. One of the design parameters was to do exactly what it did Saturday. We had to wait 13 years to test it out to the limits of its design parameters. Fortunately...