All this talk about boiler explosions leads me to ask what ever happened to Benson Mountain Company? I heard they made some loco and taction boilers that were ASME and have all been condemned, as well as some repairs nixed. I spoke to one fellow who knew a guy that had them check out his boiler for a tube job, BMC told him it was condemnable, so he had a new boiler built. He since found out that his old boiler was OK with new tubes.

Are they still in buisiness?

For what it's worth, their webpage does not exist anymore. There was a discussion on the Live Steam board about them, you can find the thread at http://www.chaski.com/wwwboard/live_ste ... /9550.html

Roger

> All this talk about boiler explosions leads
> me to ask what ever happened to Benson
> Mountain Company? I heard they made some
> loco and taction boilers that were ASME and
> have all been condemned, as well as some
> repairs nixed. I spoke to one fellow who
> knew a guy that had them check out his
> boiler for a tube job, BMC told him it was
> condemnable, so he had a new boiler built.
> He since found out that his old boiler was
> OK with new tubes.

> Are they still in buisiness?


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