Chavez Locomotive

Hello All.

I took some photos of the Chavez Locomotive with the idea that the museum could make a poster with a photo and information about the engine and the donors. Attached are some of the photos. Note that the locomotive look so much better with the brass polished up.

 

There are also photos of the work Jim and I did today. We stripped down the engine in Jim garage by removing the cab, running boards, plumbing, turret, domes, stack, jackets, bands and bell. We then move the engine to Jims shop to use the overhead hoist to remove the boiler.

We spent the rest of the day going over many issues in the chassis including valve gear, spring rigging, front pilot truck. The machine work so far looks very good.

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Another switch!

More progress is being made on the redwood empire live steamers track at Youth Community Park. Dave resisted the siren song of the train show in Santa Rosa and instead, spent the day out at youth Community Park adding a switch to our track. Theis is all  part of the “Y” project that will allow us to turn trains around on the main line and make operations much easier to perform.

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Don Bruner-Welch has been hard at work on re-ballasting portions of the main line at Youth Community Park. The photo above shows newly laid ballast that will ensure smooth running this coming spring. If you are interested in helping out, give Don a call, Work parties generally occur on Sundays around 10:00 at the park.