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Steam & Excursion > Northwestern Steel & Wire 12Date: 09/11/21 13:54 Northwestern Steel & Wire 12 Author: refarkas (From a very backlit slide) Northwestern Steel and Wire 12 (Ex-GTW) is working in Sterling, Illinois on March 30, 1978.
Bob  Date: 09/11/21 14:37 Re: Northwestern Steel & Wire 12 Author: wjpyper Good job bringing out the detail.
Date: 09/11/21 16:58 Re: Northwestern Steel & Wire 12 Author: krm152 Nice photo. Many went there to see this steam operation.
ALLEN Date: 09/11/21 18:05 Re: Northwestern Steel & Wire 12 Author: CP8888 Did the NWS engines burn coal or oil??
Posted from Android Date: 09/12/21 01:34 Re: Northwestern Steel & Wire 12 Author: Q4960 I first experienced Sterling Steam around 1970. The locomotives burned coal then but had been converted to burn oil by my next visit, around 1971
Roger Holmes Posted from Android Date: 09/12/21 14:23 Re: Northwestern Steel & Wire 12 Author: Frisco1522 I've heard some funny stories about the maintenance on those engines.
Date: 09/12/21 18:41 Re: Northwestern Steel & Wire 12 Author: flash34 Funny and horrific, Don.
Date: 09/12/21 20:24 Re: Northwestern Steel & Wire 12 Author: mdogg flash34 Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Funny and horrific, Don. Can you please share some details? Posted from Android Date: 09/13/21 05:27 Re: Northwestern Steel & Wire 12 Author: flash34 I read somewhere recently about them replacing siderods with pieces of I-beam, and stacks of cylinder heads to replace ones broken when driving boxes came out of adjustment and the piston would punch out the old one, just to name a couple. It made me wonder about their boiler practices.
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