This morning at 6:35 am the shop crew lit off the locomotive Glenbrook for the first time in 89 years.

Following a 31 year off and on again restoration effort, a critical review and approval of the boiler calculations by a professional engineer, and a two day intensive inspection by two state boiler inspectors we have a functional and licensed boiler.

It is by virtue of a generous grant from the E.L. Wiegand Foundation that NSRM was able to complete the restoration.

It has been a long process. Thanks go to all those people who supported and contributed to the project over the years.

CCdW

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Congratulations Chris, et. al. I am very much looking forward to seeing this beautiful locomotive again. I am enjoying this strange renaissance of 19th Century locomotives and their replicas.

Story on the fire-up:

http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/11/1 ... /19296427/


http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/aee108f ... 2V.1-0.jpg


Overall history--and one of the amazing things about her survival, in my opinion, is that she wasn't donated to a scrap drive in WW II! We lost a number of significant artifacts that way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glenbrook

What looks like a postcard image--not too clear, but what is visible is a well-proportioned locomotive.

http://images.marketplaceadvisor.channe ... -7261a.jpg

In the shop:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=432714

http://www.altamontpress.com/discussion ... 36,quote=1

More shop photos from the Nevada State Railroad Museum's Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 668&type=3

Some individual shots for those who have trouble with Facebook:

Tallow cup:

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... e=54E05071

Stack being squared up prior to riveting:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 46cd2f5541

Gauge glass fitttings:

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... 4104_o.jpg

The boiler required a new barrel; rear section being set in place to facilitate alignment:

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... 4104_o.jpg

First boiler course set up for drilling for the check valve:

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... e=5510A3C5

Riveting:

https://scontent-b-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... e=54D49EDB

Whew! Who says smaller engines are easier to work on?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 440f6f2a70

Enjoy. . .

Congratulations Chris...well done!

Mike Ramsey

Great work. Does she have a lap seam boiler? If so was that a major issue with the state boiler inspector?

According to a Facebook photo caption the original boiler had lap seams, the new fabricated boiler intended for operation does not.

The new barrel is triple riveted double strap butt seam. Perhaps a little over kill on a 42" diameter barrel but it is an opportunity to drive rivets. The dome was removed and a liner installed to bring the wrapper opening up to code. a new dome lid was made in steel replacing the cast iron original. New braces and staybolts also.

Your friendly moderator plans to be there on Saturday May 23rd for the event...

Commonly identified by his beard, mostly grey and a green oil-cloth fedora, with a blond on his arm...

We expect to have a small gathering of contributors to the Pacificng.org site...

Randy

The GLENBROOK project got a nice write-up in the May/June issue Nevada Magazine.

The issue of Nevada Magazine has a nice seven-page article about the restoration of the GLENBROOK. This is followed by a five-page article about the brew-pub located in the former N-C-O depot in Reno. Later in the issue is a neat report on the town of Tonopah (which was a major mining center a century ago with railroad connections).

Nevada Magazine is a self-funding (advertising and subscriptions) division of the Nevada Commission on Tourism.