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| Author: | softwerkslex [ Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Reconstruction activity France post WW2 |
This video has some really detailed shots of reconstruction immediately after liberation in northern France. There are some really rough back yard repair methods. Check out the filling of a boiler with buckets at 21:39. Bet you never did that before! https://youtu.be/lFW-IL4Reek |
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| Author: | QJdriver [ Tue Apr 06, 2021 11:41 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reconstruction activity France post WW2 |
I used a cattle sprayer for seven years. Does that count ??? |
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| Author: | LVRR2095 [ Tue Apr 06, 2021 12:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reconstruction activity France post WW2 |
softwerkslex wrote: Check out the filling of a boiler with buckets at 21:39. Bet you never did that before! Watch the film The Titfield Thunderbolt! A bucket brigade is a major scene in the film. |
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| Author: | 70000 [ Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reconstruction activity France post WW2 |
The loco being coaled at 21:11 looks rather like a GWR Dean Goods 0-6-0 as some of them ended up in War Department service in WW2, though it has gained a large air tank on the running plate. |
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| Author: | softwerkslex [ Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reconstruction activity France post WW2 |
LVRR2095 wrote: softwerkslex wrote: Check out the filling of a boiler with buckets at 21:39. Bet you never did that before! Watch the film The Titfield Thunderbolt! A bucket brigade is a major scene in the film. I know, but here they are filling the cold boiler through the safety valve manifold. |
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| Author: | softwerkslex [ Tue Apr 06, 2021 2:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reconstruction activity France post WW2 |
QJdriver wrote: I used a cattle sprayer for seven years. Does that count ??? Was that a Mamod tractor you were filling? |
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| Author: | QJdriver [ Tue Apr 06, 2021 11:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reconstruction activity France post WW2 |
No Sir --- I had a Porter Forney. Those were the days. It would take all day to gather enough dead wood for a fire, and many trips to the well to fetch water. It was HARD water, so I treated it with CALGON. The cattle sprayer was also used for fire protection and boiler washes, I had to do a washout every time I ran her. No water supply in the enginehouse, as you might imagine. You young kids have it easy these days.... |
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| Author: | PaulWWoodring [ Wed Apr 07, 2021 5:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reconstruction activity France post WW2 |
I've got to get my slide of the bucket brigade coaling RDG 2102 in Kent, Ohio in 1977 scanned for here at some point, just to prove it happened. |
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