Re: SVRY #19

South Park Wrote:
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> Thanks, guys.
>
> Taking this one step further ...
>
> Say a guy / group restores a locomotive to
> operational condition and the clock starts ticking
> ..
>
> Same guy / group runs it only once in a blue
> moon and does all the proper steps to put it up
> for long term storage between uses. At the end of
> 15 years, the thing has nowhere near the 1472
> service days and a well documented history of
> proper maintenance between use periods. Are there
> waivers and / or methods to avoid being required
> to break the machine down for the mandatory
> rebuild, or is this requirement pretty rigid ?

The requirement is pretty rigid. I believe that the Eureka got a waiver recently. If so, that is the only case I’ve heard of.

Even so, the new rule is a huge improvement over the old one which required new flues every five years, with the possibility of getting extensions of one year at a time depending on the mood, whim, or competence (pick whichever you like) of the FRA inspector, who may or may not have had any experience with boilers other than looking at yours.

Now, the FRA sends its inspectors to school so they have a basic understanding of what they are looking at, for both the actual boiler, and the paper documentation.