Fitz Ibelive that Karl has been in communication with our group but it pre dates my membership. I do know that the Pueblo Group was a big help early on in our clubs efforts with the 2926. Gunns
Sat. 22 Oct 05 Big turnout today, We jumped right in to work, and yet more needle scaleing of truck 4, repainting the spring pockets, and opening all the drainage holes in the frame of the spring pockets and body of the trucks. The sand blasting crew that sandblasteded the tender, showed up to clean up some last areas on the oil bunker, and those areas were then painted with rust bullet. In the office, all of our part controll sheets are being scaned in to the database, allowing faster access to where and what has been done in the past. This helps a lot, especillay now that reassembly, has started on the trucks. Today we finshed and aired up 3 of the tenders brake cylinders, a fourth has been disassembled, painting has begun on areas that will be inacessable after reassembly. All the brake cylinders are in very good condition with only one that had mild pitting, the pitting was cleaned up with our Hone. All the cylinders opened to date have had no rust, just 45 year old grease and dust.... Much was accomplished, and our goal to reassemble the tender this year looks secure. more to come, Gunns
Hi all. Wends. 26 Oct 05, Brake work today, finshed up another Cylinder, So we now have only 4 left to do. here are the finshed Cylinders. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/age?full=1 we also open two more cylinders to check condition and spray them with solvent for the next work day. Here are the ones left to do, http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agf?full=1 all but one Cylinder opened so far, have been in Very good (look new except fo the 49 year old grease) One cylinder had some pitting and corrosion but the hone cleaned it up. We think the pitted one may have been next to the blow down valve, and was the recipent of the steam wash. This is the Brake Cart, with the tools we use for the cylinder restoration. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agg?full=1 In the Office they have started the sorting and filing of our drawings, a PDF file is also planed with a searchable index. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agh?full=1 This is the oil bunker fill hatch, one of two http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agi?full=1 Another photo of the hatch. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agj?full=1 A lok down at the tender trucks from on top of the oil bunker http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agk?full=1 Used cups from the brake cylinders. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agl?full=1 the new steps installed on the tender. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agm?full=1 More photos, Here is the buffer block from the tender http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agn?full=1 Here is the buffer spring http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/ago?full=1 More to come, Gunns The Wife, me, and the girlfriend (in the background)
We should all have such interesting "girlfriends!" Been there. Done that. Look forward to some day again.... Boxcab E50
Kevin, I see your wife has the hardhat on. Is she a volunteer along with you? That would be great, to have one's wife working alongside. Hmm, maybe not. She might be giving you instructions. Seriously, is she a rail restorer, too? Re the 49 year old grease--keep it. Doubt you can find anything of that quality today.
Karen, (my wife) is on the education committe, and has been instumental in the office, She runs a mean air scaler too. Gunns
Hi All, 2 Nov 05 Today saw the refurbishment of another brake cylinder. that makes 5 of 8 compleated, 3 to go. Of the 5 compleated 3 have passed the air test (holding the requiered pressure for the requiered time) and have been painted, and await remounting to the truck. One of our standard bench marks is that we dont paint it untill it is ready for reinstallation. Also paint is beeing applyed to the areas that will be covered by the reinstallation of large parts. In the office all the drawings have been sorted and filed, also they have been scaned and are beeing made up in to a document that we can burn on to a CD Rom or DVD. More to come, Gunns
Did the remaining two cylinders fail a test? If so, will then require some major work to pass? Where do you go for parts in that instance? Boxcab E50 [ November 04, 2005, 01:49 PM: Message edited by: BoxcabE50 ]
No not a failure, but one was only finshed sat and the other had a diffrent fitting, that needs to be put on the test "Tree" We had some minor pitting we had to work out, but that cyl passed. Gunns
5 Nov 05 Big crew today. Two more cyls for the tender brakes done to day, that makes seven done one to go. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agq?full=1 Also the brake beam was finshed today, http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agr?full=1, And receved fine adjustment, http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/ags?full=1, And installed. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agt?full=1 Work on truck 4 continues, removing paint from stuff that shouldnt have paint, and reinstalling refurbished parts. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agu?full=1 Also all the tender wheels were gauged today, with good results, most wheelsets were installed new in the last shoping. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agk?full=1 After the work session I crawled into the furnace. Here is the inside of a tube, with a superheater in it. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agv?full=1 more to come, Gunns
Boiler survey will happen after the tender is finshed, and after the asbestos abatment, hopefully starting next year. From what we can see from the washout ports and some of the training tests made with our NDT equipment, the boiler looks very good, but the real info wont be avalible untill after the abatment. Gunns [ November 07, 2005, 11:12 PM: Message edited by: Gunns ]
Gunns....... This is a nice thread and great shots. I will have to share it with my Dad when he comes over tomorrow. He was the one who got the whole thing rolling on this restoration project. Ed B***** you will know his name I am sure, no need to post it here. I am sure he will have some comments tomorrw to post when he sees all this. Again, nice job on the presentation.
Will your group be allowed to do any of the abatement work? (Thus keeping costs down?) Or must it all be contracted out? Boxcab E50
That sounds good. Perhaps he has something arranged, where the work will be done at a lesser rate. Or as a donation. Wouldn't that be great! Boxcab E50
Kevin aka Gunns........ Enjoyed looking at the website today, at my sons house, and this thread containing all the information on the work so far on 2926. This has been a lot more detailed than the newsletter could possibly be that I receive. I will be back on the net soon and look forward to staying in touch with all of you and keeping up on the work progress. My Dad headed up the storage restoration, back when he worked for the AT&SF, and placement of this engine which is why I got the ball rolling on restoring it now. I am glad to see it is in capable hands and work is progressing quickly. The wife and I are looking to come down in March/April for all the events and look forward to meeting with the group and seeing what has been done since my absence. I sure do miss working on it with you all but seeing it here makes it feel like I am still there. I will keep in touch. Sincerely, Ed Bukove (founder and president emeritus)
Mr Bukove, Thanks much, I have only been on board for about 6 months, and owe a great debt to all the seinor club members. Right now things seem to be moving very fast, but that is becuse of all the things that have been done before. As has been mentioned before, the Locomotive is in Extreemly good shape, we expected to replace 1/3 of the bushings on the brake rigging of the tender trucks, (64 or so of the 190 bushings in the truck brakes) so far we have only had to replace about 12, and are 60% done with the brake rigging of the trucks. (truck 13 the rear truck is done, and truck 4 the front truck is partialy finshed) progress is steady, Kevin
