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 Post subject: Re: L&N #2132 Now in Kentucky
PostPosted: Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:05 pm 

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Hot Metal wrote:
In stunned disbelief and amazement, I hereby retract my previous comments in this thread.

I need a stiff drink...


Take two or three.

People who have not seen this thing close-up have no idea what a sorry mess was made of it in the move to the Park. One has to wonder how it held together for this move. It had to have been VERY carefully rigged, lifted, and hauled.

Local Bainbridge lore is that it was cut into several pieces in order to make it small enough and light enough for the pieces to fit on a 2-ton city street department truck.

It appears to have been cut into at minimum 3 pieces, and most likely 4. In the process, the tubes and tube sheets and grates were scrapped. Both waist sheets were cut, as was the bottom of the smokebox.

At least a few years ago, you could stand in the right spot on the left side, look through the gash in the lower section of the boiler just ahead of the firebox, and see sunlight coming through a hole around the steam dome.

Having seen that for myself is the reason why I could not be critical of how this most recent move was done. It might not have met some people's lofty standards, but nothing fell off enroute.


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