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Re: UP 4014 fired up today
Author: Hail the 4014
Date: 04-27-2019 - 23:48
RS32 Wrote:
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> Big Boy Wrote:
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> > Pulled out of the shop and fired up at least
> > enough to blow the whistle.
> >
> > Still finishing a lot of stuff, such as
> lettering,
> > putting the rods back on, and a lot more.
> >
> > Don't know if they set the safety valves or set
> > the valves yet.
> >
> > Planning a very short break-in run early next
> > week.
>
> I would imagine the safeties were or have been
> set. They can be set without steam , there are
> instructions for doing so. They don't necessarily
> HAVE to set valves, move the locomotive around
> with something else and verify the timing marks,
> if they check out the send it! I was part of one
> such rebuild, we verified marks, made no changes,
> and ran it. Beautifully square. I love the video
> of Ed blowing the whistle, seems like a clear
> message being delivered to his critics. Good job
> UP steam crew!
Special Ed has been blowing his whistle for years now. I'm glad you have all this faith in him to pull this off after the glorious track record he has set for himself over the years. This over priced locomotive and needless restoration will be the ultimate downfall of the steam program in the current climate at UP. Go Job special Ed, A job well done. Hardly any break in runs, I doubt it will make it to Ogden without a failure of some type. But hey the whistle works and the extended arm rest on the engineers side is all you need. What a joke. As a side note not to many employees that still have jobs are very excited about this, and shutter to think what all the ones that have lost their jobs think.
AHT
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> Big Boy Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Pulled out of the shop and fired up at least
> > enough to blow the whistle.
> >
> > Still finishing a lot of stuff, such as
> lettering,
> > putting the rods back on, and a lot more.
> >
> > Don't know if they set the safety valves or set
> > the valves yet.
> >
> > Planning a very short break-in run early next
> > week.
>
> I would imagine the safeties were or have been
> set. They can be set without steam , there are
> instructions for doing so. They don't necessarily
> HAVE to set valves, move the locomotive around
> with something else and verify the timing marks,
> if they check out the send it! I was part of one
> such rebuild, we verified marks, made no changes,
> and ran it. Beautifully square. I love the video
> of Ed blowing the whistle, seems like a clear
> message being delivered to his critics. Good job
> UP steam crew!
Special Ed has been blowing his whistle for years now. I'm glad you have all this faith in him to pull this off after the glorious track record he has set for himself over the years. This over priced locomotive and needless restoration will be the ultimate downfall of the steam program in the current climate at UP. Go Job special Ed, A job well done. Hardly any break in runs, I doubt it will make it to Ogden without a failure of some type. But hey the whistle works and the extended arm rest on the engineers side is all you need. What a joke. As a side note not to many employees that still have jobs are very excited about this, and shutter to think what all the ones that have lost their jobs think.
AHT
