Re: SP1215 to be unloaded in San Jose today
Author: David Dewey
Date: 10-18-2007 - 23:53
Ken,
You got 'em, soon as I can find 'em! I don't know what you'll find in the boiler, but the basic running gear looked good (I recall seeing some excessive wear on valve gear, but other parts looking freshly rebuilt--hard to say what the SP was thinking or doing back then. The rumor around Hanford was that the engine was steamed off the trailer onto the display track. The tender was completely connected (unusual for a display engine hauled into a display track) and the ground under the footplate area was saturated with old fuel oil! So, might have been true!
S'
David D.
PS The other odd thing was that all the window frames were inside a storge shed at the park, with glass in some of them. I hope you got them with the engine.