Portable wheel lathe video

FLO · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:07 am **Posts:** 328

Short video showing the wheel of a diesel locomotive (ALCO HH-660) being re-profiled with a portable track-mounted lathe. The traction motor is powered using a welding machine as power source.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBoyPhn1S3E

Footnote: Loco is "Buffalo Creek #43" (formerly RELCO #606), owned by Western New York Railway Historical Society.
Read more about the wheel work here: http://www.trainweb.org/wnyrhs/bc432009.htm
Recent news here: http://www.trainweb.org/wnyrhs/bc432012.htm

I have no affiliation with this group.

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Buffalo Creek 43 -

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Photo source: (see link above)