Re: WW&F Railway #9 is back in steam after 81 years. [ more pics ]
| November 26, 2014 02:23PM |
Pictures from the first steam up. A note about the pictures. I use photobucket to host my pictures and photobucket's picture resizer is not being cooperative today. So some pictures are big and some are small.
Just after lighting the fire.
Adding more wood.
Look inside the smoke box. The copper line feeds the blower nozzle and you can just see the top of the blast pipes.
First scoop of coal.
Second scoop.
Blowing down the water glass.
Only place you can see a Portland Company locomotive hooked up to a computer.
Coal smoke in the air.
View from the car barn staging and the first tine the safety popped.
Blowing out steam passages in the cylinder castings.
Setting the valves to blow out exhaust passages.
Open the throttle and
you get rained on.
Second whistle of the day.
Rest of the pictures.
Just after lighting the fire.
Adding more wood.
Look inside the smoke box. The copper line feeds the blower nozzle and you can just see the top of the blast pipes.
First scoop of coal.
Second scoop.
Blowing down the water glass.
Only place you can see a Portland Company locomotive hooked up to a computer.
Coal smoke in the air.
View from the car barn staging and the first tine the safety popped.
Blowing out steam passages in the cylinder castings.
Setting the valves to blow out exhaust passages.
Open the throttle and
you get rained on.
Second whistle of the day.
Rest of the pictures.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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