Steam on NS

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Jerome,
 
The missing parts are safely stored in a box car in Roanoke, VA.
 
Thanks,
 
Richard D. Shell
 
 
In a message dated 7/9/2010 7:01:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Hasn't been  mentioned so far, but I recall that a couple of main rods and 
perhaps valve  gear parts are missing from # 1218.  Is that correct ?  If 
the parts  are not on the loco, do they even exist anymore ?  I feel fortunate 
to  have seen, filmed, and ridden behind 1218 in action from 1987 to  1994, 
and don't think it will happen again.
 
Jerome Crosson  (formerly NJ, now MO).




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Sent: Thu, Jul 8, 2010 2:48 pm
Subject:  Re: Steam on NS

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? 
-- Kenneth Rickman - _krickman1 at carolina.rr.com_ 
(mailto:krickman1 at carolina.rr.com)  
Salisbury,  NC 
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