August 31, 2014 Mid Wednesday morning we received a call from Noor Mfg. advising us the crosshead guide was ready to be picked up. It was retrieved immediately and bolted up to the locomotive. Tramming resumed and by Saturday we were satisfied with the results. Elsewhere on site more cleaning and painting of the backhead […]

August 26, 2014 This week volunteers continued preliminary work for the September 27th open house. The heavy steel “A” frame parts were removed from the top of a storage container and assembled. It is used to support a large shade tarp. The car mover, “Lurch”, was relocated to the east of the tender leaving enough […]

August 18, 2014 The process of tramming the engineer’s side crosshead is on-going. We are proceeding carefully with the adjustments so as not to damage the heavy guide in any way. Flexible staybolt sleeve welding continues. The full replacements are more time consuming than just the repair sleeves. One more superheater bundle was completed and […]

August 12, 2014 Crosshead tramming work continued this week. Additional alignment devices were fabricated and installed. As of this writing additional work is needed to properly set the crosshead guide. Alterations were being done on the lube line flush device. A more powerful drive motor was installed along with better hydraulic hose connections. Parts were […]

August 5, 2014 Volunteers have begun incrementally raising the engineer’s side crosshead guide to position it for tramming. Several of the large nuts are in hard to get to places. One more device will be fabricated to check the proper alignment of the crosshead slide. Our lubrication line flushing equipment is being put to work […]

July 28, 2014 I would say we just experienced the hottest week this year. As we left the site Saturday around 3 PM our car thermometer indicated a temperature of 103°. Nonetheless the volunteers soldiered on in the heat. Gail and I had the privilege of having John H. from 3751 as our house guest […]

July 21, 2014 Once again our work week began early. Volunteers arrived on Monday as our siding contractor began laying forms for the concrete rail crossings. The originals were removed to facilitate the removal of the old ties and excavate the ground below. Forms were completed Tuesday then the concrete was poured on Thursday. Some […]

July 15, 2014 Our rainy season has arrived, mostly during the evening hours. One of the G.F.I. receptacles kicked out which in turn disabled one of the welding rod ovens so no pipe welding was accomplished Wednesday. However, other non critical welding projects were done. The cylinder hone holding device was welded together. On Saturday […]

July 8, 2014 Last week’s work began on Sunday with a trip to Williams, AZ to retrieve the reconditioned crosshead assembly’s. The work was done professionally by the Grand Canyon Railway staff. This job was a daunting task and one which had to be done by experts outside our volunteer organization. GCRY is just one […]

June 28, 2014 We were a little short-handed this week with regards to the weekly TW3 and Web site updates. The sole Webmaster (that would be me) went on vacation. Meanwhile, Rick & Gail (the CMO and Railroad Secretary respectively), who normally generate the content for this report, where on travel to Williams AZ on […]