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| Author: | Joshua K. Blay [ Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | A SOO-thing sight |
There's coal burning in Duluth tonight... http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 752&nseq=9 Joshua |
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| Author: | Kevin Gillespie [ Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A SOO-thing sight |
I thought that at least one of the piston rods had been cut on 2719 during her move to Duluth? Has it been replaced? |
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| Author: | Joshua K. Blay [ Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A SOO-thing sight |
According to their website, two new ones were fabricated. |
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| Author: | ATK [ Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A SOO-thing sight |
Nice GP30. I've always wondered, as those drop equalizer road trucks were obviously non-EMD standard, do they use EMD traction motors, or GE 752's? |
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| Author: | Dennis Storzek [ Sun Aug 26, 2007 1:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A SOO-thing sight |
The original GE 752 motors that came on the FA-1's in 1948. |
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| Author: | Mark D. [ Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:00 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A SOO-thing sight |
Makes one wonder why they made two when only one was cut? Mark D. |
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| Author: | Dennis Storzek [ Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A SOO-thing sight |
If you had a chance to view the photos of the rods that were BRIEFLY posted, you would have noted photos of rods cut in different places, so apparently both were cut. |
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| Author: | Mark D. [ Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A SOO-thing sight |
I was there, saw the engine, and took photo's. If they cut the engineers side piston rod, it certainly wasn't visible from the outside! It was still installed on the locomotive, but appeared to have been properly disconnected at the crosshead. The fireman's side, however, was removed and laying in two pieces on the museum floor. One end still connected to the piston. So either they really only made one piston rod, or the other had something else wrong with it that was not evident on a cursory visual examination. Mark D. |
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| Author: | Gary Gray [ Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A SOO-thing sight |
Mark D. wrote: Makes one wonder why they made two when only one was cut?
Mark D. It's simple Mark, insurance. If you have a good spare, that item will never, ever break again. Anyone who's owned old cars knows this rule...................:) |
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| Author: | Mark D. [ Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: A SOO-thing sight |
Gary, yer' right! I do own old cars, and I do work with old railroad stuff. Either way, it's good insurance to have something that guarantees you will never need it. I didn't think of that! Mark D. |
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