NNG - SLRG 1744 with her innerds showing....

... some are not for the faint of heart.

As time permits 1744 is being stripped down for her boiler's eventual departure and eventual overhaul.


Looking at the doorsheet showing the removed section. Notice what appears to be a crack in the mudring on the far left.


rear tube sheet showing the removed area below the tubes all the way to the mud ring.


A small hunk of the rear tube sheet where it attaches to the mudring. Notice the horizontal "stripes" in the steel. This is caused by padding up the sheet with weld instead of replacing it. The entire sheet below the bricks looked like this.


One of the 3 corner cracks in the mudring.


Looking up at the crownsheet, showing fusible plugs and a proposed area to be cut out and replaced.


Looking at the left side outer wrapper sheet from the inside showing the bushings the SP put in the oversize staybolt holes to reduce them to a proper size. when we cut the staybolts out, the bushings came out too.


Somehow it is hard not to look at this:

and think this...
(RGS 25 being scrapped at Ridgway in 1940).