Retired rail employees fight to preserve old train in Jacksonville

[Ocklawaha]

Ock... who owns the Locomotive Now? the City?  and do you know of someone who could bring her back to life?

Just show up with your tool box and we'll go right to work! Otherwise the VP mechanical dept of the old Coast Line is a friend and depending on his health, boy could he lead us... BTW, he has a steam engine in his garage in Ortega! No kidding! Last I knew of the old gal was before I left for loftier climes in the Andes, so my knowledge is dated. My guess is she is CSX property on loan to the city, lease or some other legally binding agreement. If she was given to the city then Parks and anyone else responsible for her open air condition needs a good butt whooping.

OCKLAWAHA

[peestandingup]

1504 = Hiro

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xccxke_thomas-meets-hiro-us-dub_shortfilms

[Ocklawaha]

1504 = Hiro

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xccxke_thomas-meets-hiro-us-dub_shortfilms

Parts? Really? Any complete blacksmith shop with a forge can repair her... The beauty of steam is the ability of the village blacksmith to get em rolling again.

In Colombia our steam fleet (about 90 locomoturas) are almost all Baldwin, products from the USA. Out of those perhaps 10 are operational, and another 10 or so could operate with an afternoon or two of TLC, but understand THERE ARE NO SPARE PARTS. You CAN cannibalize the others for a short time but eventually you have to make it up as you go along, and ours are SWEET. I love my little Mikado, "Gabriel."

http://www.youtube.com/v/gxF9ycdZAKk?fs=1&hl=en_US

This -100 is the condition I found the railroads in when I first arrived... Sad. For those that are interested, it looks a bit different today.

http://www.youtube.com/v/8BzLWtoTPQE?fs=1&hl=en_US

OCKLAWAHA

[Lunican]

Check out 4:55 in Ock's first video to see a guy that really likes living on the edge.

[Ocklawaha]

Well Ock, its a little more than blacksmithery for Steam Power to work.  If it was easy to make Boilers work, God wouldnt have ever invented the Swedish to prove how easy it is to screw it up.

ROFLMAO! Good one Stephen. In their case there has never been a machine that one couldn't fix with a sledge hammer. 

As for steam, it is a true art form, boilers are tricky and have to meet strict codes... but the machinery to turn out a steam engine is the same basic stuff found in any complete blacksmith/forge shop back in the day. Certainly it helps to know which end of the torch to hold when you light it off.

Lunican, yeah, NUCKIN FUTZ! Always some dude trying to: "Que es mas macho!" That machismo gets people killed. You do know that until a few years ago, brakemen still walked over the tops of cars on running boards. Glad they made that illegal.

OCKLAWAHA