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Author:  bobyar2001 [ Tue Feb 14, 2006 9:20 pm ]
Post subject:  RR&G 106
Long rusting away at Long Leaf, Louisiana, hopefully it may look like this builders photo again someday:

http://collections.mnhs.org/visualresou ... Type=Basic
Author:  Alan [ Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:10 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: RR&G 106 as is today
Not in good shape. It has been outside in the forest all these years.

http://www.steamlocomotive.info/vlocomo ... isplay=545
Author:  survivingworldsteam [ Wed Feb 15, 2006 1:09 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: RR&G 106 as is today
It's a bit hard to see it in that picture; try this one:

http://www.pernet.net/~james1/AOTT/LONG ... ngle~1.jpg

It is part of my tour in March of 2002:

http://www.pernet.net/~james1/AOTT/LONGLEAF

And yes; it has been sitting out in the woods for several decades now and is in pretty rough shape; there was talk of restoring Meridian Lumber 2-6-0 number 202; and it has been moved into the workshop. It is in a little better shape; you can a picture of it in my tour from April of 1995:

http://www.pernet.net/~james1/AOTT/longleaf.htm

The folks at the museum in Long Leaf are doing a great job restoring this site from the woods have years of dereliction as these two tours show. Now that it is officially a Louisiana State Museum; they may have access to resources they did not have before.

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

Surviving World Steam Project
Author:  Alan [ Wed Feb 15, 2006 2:52 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: RR&G 106 as is today
Hey James! Good to see you!

You know its funny, I know we have been in the same place at the same time and yet we have never met. We need to rectify this sometime.

If Long Leaf is going to attempt restoration of any of their loco's, Id pick 106's sister in the shed, I think its 104 or 102?
I wonder if they are superheated? They sure would be a great engine for that site. Many years ago David Grigsby talked of bringing one of his Reader engines down to run at Long Leaf.

Did you see 745 is about to run again? Im too far out of the loop again - I didnt hear anything about it untill I read about it hear. I have lost contact with my buddy David Bartee who is helping them.

Alan
Author:  survivingworldsteam [ Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: RR&G 106 as is today
Alan wrote:
Hey James! Good to see you!

You know its funny, I know we have been in the same place at the same time and yet we have never met. We need to rectify this sometime.

If Long Leaf is going to attempt restoration of any of their loco's, Id pick 106's sister in the shed, I think its 104 or 102?
I wonder if they are superheated? They sure would be a great engine for that site. Many years ago David Grigsby talked of bringing one of his Reader engines down to run at Long Leaf.

Did you see 745 is about to run again? Im too far out of the loop again - I didnt hear anything about it untill I read about it hear. I have lost contact with my buddy David Bartee who is helping them.

Alan


Alan;

It is good to hear from you to. I hope you faired OK in Hurricane Rita. Rita damaged our home in Groves (nr Port Arthur) to the point where we could not live in it; we evacuated to Cleburne and are living there now. Things are still torn up in the Beaumont/Orange/Port Arthur area; although the engine in Port Arthur survived without a scatch.

Engine 106 in the car knockers shed at Long Leaf is in the best shape of the three engines on the site; since it has been under cover. Unfortunately, the shed has collasped on it; the cross brace on the end of the roof is holding up that end by resting on the boiler. The shed would either have to be stablized or torn down to get 106 out.

I think they are all non-superheated; but that is nothing but a guess.

Yes, we did get to 745; it was at the Dequincy Railroad Festival. What a grand sight she was; I am so glad she proved the neysayers (even on this forum) wrong by making that circuit on the mainline. I did not get to see her run; maybe they will let her out another time.

I would like to make yet another pilgrimage to Long Leaf one of these days; I also want to pay another visit to the McNeill Street Pumping Station in Shreveport. Dave Lanthrop also expressed interest in going to Long Leaf; maybe one of these days the three of us can meet there. It is a bit farther than it used to be.

-James Hefner
Hebrews 10:20a

Surviving World Steam Project
Author:  bobyar2001 [ Wed Feb 15, 2006 9:13 pm ]
Post subject:  Long Leaf a good model
Despite having a long way to go, I believe the folks at Long Leaf have the right idea. They are restoring a genuine historic site, not trying to create one where history didn't happen. The more typical scenario would be to pack up the equipment there and scatter it all over, leaving the actual historic site to rot away. Maybe someday that little 4-4-0 can return.
Author:  jim templin [ Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: RR&G 106 as is today
The 400 and 106 aren't in as bad a shape as you'd suspect from 45= years of exposure. The 202 is in the roughest shape of them all, there is a spot in the engineers side of the boiler that has wasted thru, and one of the main drivers suffered damage at one point. The little mogul won't run without a new boiler.

As for the ten wheelers, they got new, welded fireboxes late in life, and excpt for localized condensate on the backhead end of the 400, they ain't as bad as you would think. Richard Grigsby and I did the first mechanical survey for the project back in about '91, and we were the first ones to get into the smokeboxes, ect since they were in service.

I can truly say that I know how Indiana Jones felt, and if I weren't fighting the flu I would tell you that there is no experience quite like visiting with Mr. Alen Crowell, and the stories of the old log woods days.

James, the ten wheelers are both super heated, and in all honesty, there is as much wrong with the engines from the point of mechanical wear and exposure; they have some of the thinnest tires I have ever seen.

And Bob is right too, Long Leaf is the stuff, I like to call it the South's EBT.
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