February 16, 2016 05:19PM
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Hello again -
One of the evenings that ex-T&P #610 and the Freedom Train were on display in Austin followed an afternoon of rain. IIRC, I had spent most of the day helping Andy Adams swap several of #610's rather worn brake shoes for some less worn shoes on T&NO 2-8-2 #786, which was on display in front of a fire station only a block or two from the display site. (Fortunately, both locos had 63" drivers, so no machining of #786's shoes was needed for them to work just fine on #610). Also IIRC, #786 is now the property of the Austin Steam Train Association, Inc., and was restored to operating condition for use in pulling tourist and dinner trains in the Austin area. SFAIK, she is undergoing a major overhaul, and is not currently operational (see [
www.austinsteamtrain.org] for further info.)
There was plenty of ambient light reflecting off the wet pavement to allow me to get some fairly interesting shots of #610's running gear
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The counterweights on the main drivers are MONSTROUS! It almost looks like the main drivers alone would outweigh a K-36! (Well, a C-16 anyway.)
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IIRC, the spoked center drivers were replaced with Baldwin's 'Box-Pok' wheels during a late-thirties or early-forties rebuild, allowing better counterbalancing and thus improved speeds with less pounding of the rails
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Major differences from #4449 include an Elesco feedwater heater system instead of Worthington, Baker valve gear instead of Walschearts, and that incredible articulated trailing truck. (#610's frame ends behind the fifth pair of drivers with a hinge to the trailing truck, the drawbar attaches to the rear of the truck, and the rear corners of the firebox rest directly on the truck! Will Woodard's original 4-wheel trailing truck was replaced with a cast Delta truck and frame extension on several of #610's sisters to alleviate the resultant stresses to the boiler and firebox.) SFAIK, #610 is the only surviving example of Woodard's original 'Super-Power' design from the mid- and late 1920's. (See second photo on [
ngdiscussion.net], above.)
Another appliance that was different on #610 was her utilizing a five-port "Bulls-Eye" hydrostatic lubricator to feed oil to various moving parts where steam was used to provide power - in particular the air pumps and (IIRC) the cold- and hot-water pumps for the feedwater heater. I was very fortunate during the three weeks or so that #610 replaced #4449 that Dick Jensen stayed with 'his baby', and took the time to teach me to help care for her. Andy Adams, Al Phillips and Russ Shipman - the three firemen-mechanics on the paid crew - seemed only too happy to let me take over a lot of the mundane chores - such as lighting off the fire each morning. When things were shut down in the evening - including extinguishing the engine's fire - all of the appliances were turned off, and a heavy plate was placed over the stack to minimize heat loss, so there was usually 50 to 60 pounds or more of steam pressure still available in the morning . After forty years it's hard to remember all of the details, but the first thing was to remove the stack cover. Steam was admitted to the oil heater to warm the fuel, the blower was turned on to get a draft through the firebox, and once the oil was hot enough a burning rag or big piece of cardboard tossed into the firebox, the atomizer turned on to vaporize the fuel, and the firing valve opened a few notches to allow fuel to flow. Once the fire was going well and the pressure high enough then the air pumps could be started - which included adjusting the hydrostatic lubricator so that a steady small drip of oil could be seen rising through the water behind each of the two bulls-eyes associated with the air pumps. (IIRC, the D&RGW 2-8-2's have bulls-eye lubricators as well, but with fewer ports since these engines are not equipped with feedwater heaters and their associated pumps.) Unfortunately, I didn't get any clear shots of the interior of #610's cab, and apparently the Southern replaced the hydrostatic lubricator with a more reliable mechanical system, since this device was missing when I visited #610 in Palestine in March, 2013.
(To Be Continued.)
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Roosso
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 04/21/2022 07:10PM by Russo Loco.
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