Steam on NS

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I have done some work on the climax in Cass. BUT i don't do near the 
work as others. I got too much stuff going on.

Nathan

Nathan Simmons
trainman51 at gmail.com
http://www.t-51.org
KI4MSK


On 7/8/2010 13:31, NW Mailing List wrote:

> My understanding is that she was pretty well worn out overall. 

> Specifically, I know the cylinders are not correctly in line with the 

> frame (kind of stuck with that, since it's a solid casting), but that 

> can be dealt with once you know about it.  She also has a number of 

> leaky flues and bad stay bolts.  I've been told that every time a crew 

> member checked them, they'd find more bad ones.  Apparently 1218 had a 

> habit (at least during the NS steam program days) of breaking stay 

> bolts - don't know if that was always the case or not.

>

> I got the impression that her problems weren't anything that couldn't 

> be fixed, but they would require massive time and capital, neither of 

> which NS was willing to invest in something that would never return a 

> penny in revenue, let alone profit.  Certainly other engines have been 

> resurrected from worse condition (look at some of the Southern engines 

> recently rebuilt or under construction), but they're usually a labor 

> of love and have the benefit of a wealthy foundation to support them. 

> How many of us are willing to give up every spare evening, weekend, 

> and dollar for the foreseeable future in order to see 1218 in steam 

> again? It will take a lot of us...

>

> NW Mailing List wrote:

>> Does anyone know exactly what problems 1218 had when she was last 

>> used in 1991?