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Larry

July 17, 2014 03:43PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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Kyle W. Colley Wrote:
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> I was working on that train. The hat nut on the L1
> drive wheel was missing and the rod was sliding an
> excess of three inches off the wheel. Our options
> were to take off the rod from the 1st and 2nd
> drive wheels on both sides, or to run down with
> diesel. The roundhouse decided that we should not
> run down without side rods, so we switched out for
> a diesel (which was luckily already in Silverton).

Thank-you Kyle for the description of what happen. When I read the newspaper today and they posted the pic with just a brief caption made me curious. No slam at D&S or equipment was intended. Thank-you. Larry

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#7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	Larry	July 17, 2014 02:13PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	drgwk37	July 17, 2014 02:27PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	Larry	July 17, 2014 03:15PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	dougvv	July 17, 2014 06:55PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	Fritz Klinke	July 17, 2014 04:11PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	Larry	July 18, 2014 05:43AM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	Hauspiper	July 18, 2014 06:45AM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	John Cole	July 18, 2014 07:28AM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	jwebb	July 17, 2014 03:14PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	jalbers	July 17, 2014 03:18PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	Larry	July 17, 2014 03:19PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	jwebb	July 17, 2014 03:21PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	Larry	July 17, 2014 03:26PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	Kyle W. Colley	July 17, 2014 03:37PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	Larry	July 17, 2014 03:43PM
So ......	RichB	July 17, 2014 04:19PM
Re: So ......	Kyle W. Colley	July 18, 2014 12:45PM
Re: So ......	drgwk37	July 18, 2014 01:48PM
Re: So ......	Chris Walker	July 18, 2014 05:19PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	Chris Webster	July 17, 2014 05:44PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	John Cole	July 17, 2014 06:04PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	Larry	July 17, 2014 08:05PM
Eureka on the D&S - Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	dougvv	July 18, 2014 12:21AM
Does that make it a 2-6-2-2 or a 2-6-4?	dougvv	July 17, 2014 06:59PM
Re: Does that make it a 2-6-2-2 or a 2-6-4? ...	Johnson Barr	July 19, 2014 07:38PM
Re: Does that make it a 2-6-2-2 or a 2-6-4? ...	dougvv	July 19, 2014 09:59PM
Re: Does that make it a 2-6-2-2 or a 2-6-4? ...	jim pallow	July 20, 2014 06:09AM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	michael	July 17, 2014 03:47PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	Fritz Klinke	July 22, 2014 04:18PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	rehunn	July 22, 2014 04:31PM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	BoxcarBetty	July 24, 2014 10:29AM
Re: #7 on the Silverton Train 7/15/14	michael	July 24, 2014 03:30PM

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