Re: Emma Nevada

Yes, Jeff, the boiler is the key to operating the locomotive again. Concern has been if it can be rehabilitated or have to be replaced. Reportedly it has been said that the firebox (and maybe more) was a replacement from BLW circa 1915.

If the pressure portion of the boiler has to be replaced the old part can become a display to help interpret a locomotive boiler.

With upcoming (I don't know now soon) completion of the running gear, I expect the work will shift to the boiler. First the boiler will have to be laid bare for the ultrasonic thickness testing. and other analysis.

I have never asked. But, I have always thought that there has been concern of what will be found and duration of time required to raise funds to do whatever work is required. And until the jacket removal starts the locomotive has remained looking like Ward Kimball's EMMA NEVADA.

Maybe someone connected with the project will read this and respond.

Brian Norden
former member, Board of Directors, OERM/SCRM
still an individual member (52+ years)

PS One story is that Ward stopped operating it after the Chelo arrived and it burned wood. The Emma Nevada is a coal burner and the cinders did not go will the encroaching neighbors and their wash hung out to dry on backyard clotheslines. The locomotive was fired up for its 100th anniversary in 1981.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/03/2020 10:19PM by Brian Norden.