Great comment! That video of Rick using a gas torch to break the wheels etc free, while snow fell, is forever etched in my memory. I was super impressed with his can do attitude. And that he was alone, outside in the snow, pushing on. Now there’s an operational short line, narrow gauge steam railroad for the public to enjoy 🔥👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 With more operational steam locos to come! Beyond excellent!
You said something about the left side side rod was longer than the right side one. With those tapered wedges, that should be easy to correct, it just takes a little time. Check axle center to center with the pin-to-pin center distances on each side for comparison. All three should be equal. In the same manner, either piston might get moved forward or backward to bump the cylinder cover if the wedge is not adjusted properly, it happened on a little 0-4-0 in Arkansas when the rod was reinstalled after some work. It showed up in drifting.
Looking great there. That cab looks as 'interesting' as the equally 'generous' proportions of the (way larger) SAR NG15 'Kalahari' class 2-8-2. Questions, please: What's with those chunky wheel centres? Was this design intended for easy gauge conversions?
You have a small mobile crane sitting to the right of #58. Do you have plans to add high rail gear to it so it could be more versatile on the property? Isn't #58 worth of a new Engineer's seat?
I'd love to know some of the minute changes between these engines in service and the modifications you made for it to be more user friendly. Apart form the obvious things like a Tender
That’s what it would have operated with in mill service. We acquired a small knuckle coupler we may attach to the front in tube future, but most of our equipment is link and pin.
@@Stoker58 that's good thanks' for informing me. also I live in Australia so unless you guy's are in Australia I'm not going to be able to go see the loco in person. 😥
@@jessespruce704 Youngstown, Ohio USA unfortunately for you. But if you’re ever stateside and you visit Pittsburgh, PA or Cleveland, OH we’re about an hour from either point.
The saying is fairly accurate. On the Huckleberry RR, at least until 1984, work equipment was operated with link and pin while passenger equipment was knuckle couplers and air brakes. We did have a Little Giant 20-ton truck crane that was high-railed to operate on 3-foot-gauge track but had to be pulled or pushed by a Plymouth 12-ton loco. The flat cars were 4-wheeled with link and pin.
