I'm happy to report that Saturday, we put the wheels
underneath the frame of #10. The engine has new cast iron driver boxes, brass shoes and wedges, plus a number of rebushed and newly made pieces.

The frame and wheels were rolled out on Sunday.

We expect the boiler to go on in the next couple of weekends.

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Jim, what did they do about the rods? As I recall they were cut apart and rewelded with a set during the conversion from 30" to 24" gauge.


Martyhuck@aol.com

> Jim, what did they do about the rods? As I
> recall they were cut apart and rewelded with
> a set during the conversion from 30" to
> 24" gauge.

Along those same lines: just what exactly WAS done to convert this engine from 30" to 24". Did they have to narrow the frame and saddle, or did it just get wide tires?

> Along those same lines: just what exactly
> WAS done to convert this engine from
> 30" to 24". Did they have to
> narrow the frame and saddle, or did it just
> get wide tires?

Edaville Railroad regauged the engine in '59/'60. They put a new (bigger!) boiler on. They also basically cut down the cross pieces of the frame, with the exception of the cylinder casting.

The cylinders are still 30", so they welded a bar on the outside of the frame which the cylinders bolted in to, and put large keys up against the casting wall to wedge it in place. As you can probably guess, that didn't work very well and we found the holes in the frame that held the casting to be egg-shaped when we removed the casting. Additionally there was a crack in one of the walls of the casting. We solved the problem by welding a vertical extension from the end of each bar to the frame itself, then keyed the cylinder in that way. We then custom-made four bolts which are dry-fit into the (bored-out) holes. That sucker ain't movin' again.

As for the drive rods, Edaville's rods came out straight from the connection to the cylinder rod, made a 90-degree corner in toward the frame, then another 90-degree corner back toward the wheel, similar to this: _|- They got away with it because the cylinders are so small. What we've done is put in a longer (and beefier) connection to the wheel which allows us to have a straight drive rod.

I've seen a picture of the regauging process, which was done outdoors on a paved surface, using (I'm told) jacks to hold up the frame.

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I think we'd all be interested in any photos that show the regauging process/methods, plus some from the recent rebuilding.

ryarger@rypn.org

> I think we'd all be interested in any photos
> that show the regauging process/methods,
> plus some from the recent rebuilding.

I second the motion!

Sounds like an Uncle Cletus and Cousin Jethro back in the barn job (a main rod with a bend in it!?! Sheesh!)

> I think we'd all be interested in any photos
> that show the regauging process/methods,

The link shows the offset and gusset applied to the main rod (lower right of photo)

Remember that this conversion ran 40 years after being re-boilered and re-gauged.

Ken

http://home.earthlink.net/~kchenard/WWF10b.JPG
kchenard@earthlink.net

This photo is from a December day when the newly cast straight stack was being positioned on the new smokebox. The rest of #10 can be seen in the background including her old diamond stack.


SJHussar@aol.com

> Remember that this conversion ran 40 years
> after being re-boilered and re-gauged.

Well, sort of. After hard usage at Pleasure Island in Wakefield, MA for 5 or 6 years, it returned to Edaville and was stored until 1998. It was used during the oil crisis as a source of steam for generating electricity to power the Edaville Christmas lights.

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