FEC #148 Rebuilding

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:53 pm

New Facebook posting:

Quote:

No. 148's newly updated burner and firing pan can accept a variety of oils - including biofuels! Once on the tracks again and following #USSugar's commitment to green energy, #EngineNo148 will be powered using vegetable oil. #GreenEnergy

https://www.facebook.com/EngineNo148/ph ... =3&theater

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 26, 2020 3:16 am

More material on FEC 148; captions are from "Engine No. 148," the Facebook site for the locomotive.

Feb. 20, 2020

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Our local U.S. Sugar locomotive mechanics, Sam and José, took the lead in changing the four wheelsets under the tender for No. 148. #USSugar #EngineNo148

(Four photos combined as one image follow.)

https://www.facebook.com/EngineNo148/ph ... =3&theater

Feb. 25, 2020

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It's always a good sign when the gauges begin to make an appearance! This vintage locomotive boiler pressure gauge, which was overhauled by FMW Solutions, has taken its rightful place at the top of the backhead.

https://www.facebook.com/EngineNo148/ph ... =3&theater

nedsn3 · **Posted:** Wed Feb 26, 2020 1:06 pm

All great pictures, thanks for posting!
Ned

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 04, 2020 3:16 am

Another pic, again with caption information coming from Engine No. 148's Facebook page.

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Engine No. 148 is beginning to look like her old self more and more! This picture shows the locomotive with all steam, water, and oil piping completed.

From February 27, 2020:

https://www.facebook.com/EngineNo148/ph ... =3&theater

Overmod · **Joined:** Thu May 24, 2012 1:37 pm **Posts:** 2230

Or it may be that the person who was doing the Facepalm updates has not had time for the previous frequency of posting, or some circumstance has made the updating notification less frequent.

This might be a far more appropriate issue to take up on the Facebook group itself, rather than speculate about here where no one knows.

WVNorthern · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2020 3:22 pm

If you had bookmarked the FEC 148 Facebook restoration page, that link no longer works.
It has been renamed. The new link is below.

https://www.facebook.com/SugarExpressFL/

Jeff Taylor · **Posted:** Sun Jun 07, 2020 1:27 am

I see a concern with their gauge. I see a ball valve and flare fittings on the copper line. As I recall you can't have a valve between the gauge and the boiler. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Maybe it is temporary.

MD Ramsey · **Joined:** Fri Feb 26, 2010 9:52 pm **Posts:** 161

Jeff Taylor wrote:

I see a concern with their gauge. I see a ball valve and flare fittings on the copper line. As I recall you can't have a valve between the gauge and the boiler. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Maybe it is temporary.

Not that I am aware of. See 49 CFR Part 230.42-46 regarding steam gauges.
https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?S ... 30_141.sg7

MD Ramsey

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