Steam & Excursion > ATSF 2926 Work Update - Flue installation begins!

Week Ending 01/17/2015
Fifty tubes were cut and placed in the boiler last week and are awaiting expansion which will be performed by their contract boiler service company. All brake shoes (driver and trailing truck shoes) have arrived and are awaiting installation. Electrical conduits for cab wiring are being laid out prior to final installation.

New photos and videos show beginning flue installation and installation of copper seals in the staybolt sleeves.

Work status:
http://nmslrhs.org/Status/status.php

New photos and videos:
http://nmslrhs.org/Photos/2015/01-17/index.html

Sponsorship availability and update:
http://nmslrhs.org/Shop/Steam2015/sponsorships.php

Home page:
http://nmslrhs.org/

Photos:
1. Comparison between driver and trailing truck brake shoes (tape shows 24 in.)
2. Laying out cab electrical conduit
3. Tapping existing staybolt sleeve. If it cannot be tapped or too far wasted, it will be cut off and a new sleeve welded on.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/21/15 10:42 by Cumbresfan.

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4. Final sweeping of boiler and smokebox prior to beginning tube and flue installation.
5. First tubes inserted!
6. Completion of small tube placement (except for few on bottom); a couple of larger flues were placed.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/21/15 10:37 by Cumbresfan.

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Must be nice to be able to stand up in the boiler, those of us who've worked the
other way are envious.

Out

Once the boiler fills up to the point where there's no room for people, how do you then position the flues correctly?

davew833 Wrote:
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> Once the boiler fills up to the point where
> there's no room for people, how do you then
> position the flues correctly?

There should always be some room at the top, for a small person, who can then exit out through the steam dome.

davew833 Wrote:
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> Once the boiler fills up to the point where
> there's no room for people, how do you then
> position the flues correctly?


I guess you could poke a long piece of rebar through, and run the flue tube in over that from hole to hole.

davew833 Wrote:
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> Once the boiler fills up to the point where
> there's no room for people, how do you then
> position the flues correctly?


I was wondering that also...

Find an expendable member and leave him in there.

Copper ferrules on the firebox end? I would also be painting everything on the inside with Apexior.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/21/15 13:45 by Frisco1522.

davew833 Wrote:
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> Once the boiler fills up to the point where
> there's no room for people, how do you then
> position the flues correctly?

Oompa-Loompas , but there are only a few that have this skill set so it does cost quite a bit to do the last few.

Ferrule the smokebox end, weld the firebox end and yes, there are several decent interior coatings
for the boiler shell.

Out

i hope he's chasing threads in pic #3. tapping new threads like that is very difficult to do and that's a pretty big tap. dave, out.

Yes, chasing threads.

great work guys!!! cannot wait to see this beauty under steam and this group has clearly been doing an outstanding job on the restoration

Don't you just feed them in from the bottom up, then crawl out the top?

g-spotter Wrote:
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> Don't you just feed them in from the bottom up,
> then crawl out the top?


Yes.

When we first rebuilt SP786 in central Texas, I helped coat the inside of the boiler with this really nasty black stuff. It was kind of like cold roofing tar and was very hard and time consuming to apply. The contractor said that once we start we needed to get finished the same day.
One of the nasty things about this stuff is that it was a very dangerous neurotoxin. So, we had to wear protective clothing as well as a full head respiratory system with air supplied by a compressor which was located far away from the work.

Two of us started at 9:00 AM and I left to go back to south Austin at 6:00 PM and we had only done about 1/4 of the boiler. The contractors crew completed the work and finished up in the early morning hours on Sunday.

I guess the contractor used us volunteers because we were expendable, grin.

It was a lot of hard work and fun helping to restore SP786 the first time.

Pat
South Austin, TX

I sure do appreciate seeing these updates on the 2926…keep up the great work and thanks for the updates/photos.

~Ryan

So what is the possibility of 2926 and 3751 double-heading some day?


Edit: Typo, meant to write 3751.

Victor A. Baird
http://www.erstwhilepublications.com



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wabash2800 Wrote:
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> So what is the possibility of 2926 and 3752
> double-heading some day?
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> Victor A. Baird
> http://www.erstwhilepublications.com


Slim to none. 3752 was scrapped decades ago.

2926 open house is held in late September each year, it would be a crowd pleaser to see it steamed up for the event.

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