June 21, 2014 Another Saturday awaited our volunteers this week. The men worked through the heat fabricating another bundle of superheaters. The backhead overlay welds were ultra sounded to recheck the areas in question. Overlay welding was performed on existing flexible staybolt sleeves which were slightly wasted at their filet welds. Brass lubrication fittings are […]

June 17, 2014 The siding reconstruction continues and we hope this work will be completed by the end of this week. On Saturday one more superheater bundle was finished and stored in the container. Finish-grinding on backhead overlay welds was completed. We will re-ultra sound those areas next week. On top of the boiler more […]

June 9, 2014 Our work session was again limited to Saturday. Track repair is expected to resume Thursday so we plan to have a normal work session on Wednesday. This week superheater work continued as usual. Fabrication of the first row of eight pipe superheater assemblies is nearing an end. Once complete, new measurements will […]

June 2, 2014 Track repair work continued this week as our General Contractor brought in a railroad track company to help out. Another superheater pipe bundle was fabricated this week. Outside temperatures approaching 100° spurred the cooler maintenance for the machine shop. The machinists were busy inside fabricating lubrication fittings. Elsewhere on site, wasted flexible […]

May 28, 2014 Somewhat of work hiatus continues as we have gone down to a skeleton crew for a few weeks. We need to keep the area clear of our workers so as to not interfere with the contractor who is re-doing the roadbed and track. Additionally, it is difficult to work on the locomotive […]

May 28, 2014 Our siding replacement project is still on-going. I expect it will take another two weeks to complete the job. Superheater work continues as bundles are being completed weekly. Flexible staybolt removal work is progressing. Several more bolts were removed two weeks ago which has allowed us to finish removing the wasted sleeves. […]

May 14, 2014 As far as work on the locomotive goes, we’re on a short hiatus with the engine and tender parked next door at our neighbor’s while our contractor, Klinger Construction LLC, completes the desperately needed track and roadbed repair. With all that going on, we didn’t want our workers to get in the […]

May 6, 2014 Wednesday’s work session was cancelled due to site track reconstruction which began Monday the 28th of April. During the first week of track work the tie plates were removed as well as track joiners, track, concrete and some ties dug up. Excavation will begin this week. Saturday’s work session began as normal […]

April 28, 2014 This past week marked the end of the winter work hours until further notice. So most of you know there will be no Wednesday work sessions until the siding track repairs are complete which will most likely last four weeks. No one except designated persons will be allowed on site during the […]

April 20, 2014 This week’s work sessions resumed with custom cutting and beveling the remaining large flexible staybolt sleeve replacements. The welders will be on site beginning this Monday. Back head overlay weld grinding continued as the welds are blended into the existing metal. The fabrication jig for the eight pipe superheater bundles was readjusted […]