I'm working on a design for a new inspection pit with a single alxe drop table.

1. How many original ones are still around?

2. What drop table mechanisms are still being used today?

Ray

Should be interesting ... we have the mechanism and no place to put it.


lamontdc@adelphia.net

Isn't Whiting still in business? Discovered today that the Whiting drop table now in use in the Savannah RH was supposedly scrapped back in the '50s.

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net

> Isn't Whiting still in business? Discovered
> today that the Whiting drop table now in use
> in the Savannah RH was supposedly scrapped
> back in the '50s.

> Dave
Yes whiting is still in business.They offer parts and new products.

irss@eriecoast.com

Whiting drop table at St. Albans, Vermont is still in use, installed 1923.

Yes whiting is still in business.They offer
> parts and new products.


bobyar2001@yahoo.com

> I'm working on a design for a new inspection
> pit with a single alxe drop table.

> 1. How many original ones are still around?

> 2. What drop table mechanisms are still
> being used today?

> Ray

Will you be working on steam engines, or diesels?

> Will you be working on steam engines, or
> diesels?

We have a three foot narrow gauge railroad with 3 steam locomotives of which on is operational, and one Plymouth diesel mechanical. We want to be able to drop one axle at a time.

Any input would be greatly appreciated. I am working with a few others on its design and would like to know what is out there in operation for drop tables. Pictures would be helpful as we go forward.

Thanks,
Ray

Conn. Antique Machinery

> I'm working on a design for a new inspection
> pit with a single alxe drop table.

> 1. How many original ones are still around?

> 2. What drop table mechanisms are still
> being used today?

Heber Valley had a drop pit installed in the shop building erected in 1992-1993 -- so it's "original" but new. I'll be up at the railroad tonight for our volunteer session and will try to find out exactly what we have. I'm sure the drawings are still around (in that it is less than ten years old).

-doc-

Heber Valley Railroad
utweyesguy@aol.com

Ray, no need to reinvent the wheel. Call Whiting and get one of theirs. No doubt they include drawings for the pit installation as well, all engineered and ready to build. If our scrapped one works well, a new one should work even better.

Dave

irondave@bellsouth.net

How can Whiting be contacted? Are they on the Web?

I used another search engine and found it.



Whiting drop tables

> How can Whiting be contacted? Are they on
> the Web?

I do not know if there on the web, but there phone number is 708-587-2100
Hope it Helps
B. Allan

cvsrkahuna@aol.com

> I do not know if there on the web, but there
> phone number is 708-587-2100
> Hope it Helps
> B. Allan
Whiting Corporation
26000 whiting way
Monee IL 60449
1-888-whiting
www.whitingcorp.com/trans.html
This is out of the 4th quater pocket list should be current

irss@eriecoast.com

> Heber Valley had a drop pit installed in the
> shop building erected in 1992-1993 -- so
> it's "original" but new. I'll be
> up at the railroad tonight for our volunteer
> session and will try to find out exactly
> what we have. I'm sure the drawings are
> still around (in that it is less than ten
> years old).

> -doc-

IRM is in the process of installing our ex-NYC whiting table. By the way, the company is NOT willing to provide drawings or specs, but will gladly sell you parts!


Kevinmccabe@avenew.com

You might try the design used at the East Broad Top. For smaller power it is a very user friendly design, and would be pretty easy to build. The ram is just a piece of cold rolled steel about 3 1/2" in dia. inside a pipe cylinder with a rope packing gland at the top. The boxes on either side are the oil reservoir, and it has a pump just like a hydraulic jack that you would buy at the hardware store.

The wheels drop into the space between the oil reservoir and the jack wheels so you can roll the whole works out from under the engine.

When the wheel set is up, and the rails are in place, you can set the pedestal binder and wedge on the jack and lift them up into place at your leisure. Beats killing yourself trying to lift those parts up by hand.



kelly@strasburgrailroad.com