Latest 4014 video Tender Bearing work

Any time frame for the move?  We looking at sometime in NOV maybe?

Late November or early December according to the various rumors I have read...  The video goes to show what a dry climate can do for you...and good seals/gaskets.

How about a sked for 3985, which can go to more places?

3985?...who knows?  Maybe after they tackle the 4014?... I would think the 3985 shorter driver wheel base.  Maybe Hotwater knows what the max degree is on curvature for the 3985.

1) The UP Steam Crew will not actually be restoring/rebuilding the 4014, as a outside contractor will be doing that. Thus, you would THINK that the UP Steam Crew could get 3985 in line for her 15 year FRA inspection (due 2014).

 

2) The tender is more the limiting factor on curve negotiation for either 3985 and/or 4014. However, boiler overhang is another "issue".

On another note, the connector track between the UP & BNSF tracks at Colton, CA was recently torn out and re-laid. The signals were changed/moved away from the very close clearance positions they were in before. The new connector track was broadened and all close clearances were eliminated.

 

I have no idea whether one has to do with the other, I doubt it, but the articulated locomotives will definitely fit through there now. It could of been just part of the track re-alignment plans when they tore out the diamond and built the new flyover, so the UP tracks now go over the top of the BNSF tracks in Colton. It's definitely an option now, when they move 4014 to the West Colton yard before the long tow back home.

 

The UP/SF Diamond in Colton, 100+ years of history...gone in a matter of days!

 

  

Thanks for the info HW. 

 

 

I'm still blown away when I think about it.  Just think, in our lifetimes we'll see a Big Boy under steam.  Never have things been better for us steam fans.

 

765 and NS steam program

PM 1225 will be under steam again soon.

261

611 hopefully

UP 844 as always

and lets not forget all the tourist operations that keep the smaller engines rolling.

 

Good time, Good times.

 

Not much going on in Pomona today. A few spectators wondering around, and a few guys doing some work.... here's pictures from this afternoon:

 

Great series of photos, they sure are plugging away at it. 

Is that a gigantic tarantula in photo 37?????

 

Gandy

FANTASTIC PICS-looks like it is hard work all around-think how heavy each piece is

to redo and restore-hat is off to these guys -imagine a real big boy actually runn9ing

in our life time-only they would restore the nyc Mohawk in st.louis.next-

According to the Trains news wire the move of 4014 will not happen until the end of Nov at the least and maybe not til the new year at the most.

I'm sure it will be after the races...mid November.

you guys are slipping.  Latest video

 

No I actually posted that in another thread a week ago...

     

Yes it is!

Note on the tent on the UP shield there are no numbers "844" or "3985".  Just wondering.....

Its a standard UP shield that you'll find on any of their equipment or buildings.

Any idea when the first segment of the actual move is scheduled to take place?

Well the NHRA finals run from Nov 7th-10th and the next event isn't until the 22nd so I'm just guessing but I'll imagine that would be there first shot at the move, based on the events scheduled out there....providing the 4014 is ready.

When I was there 2 weekends ago, they said they do not have a specific date yet, as it all depends on the prep work being done now, and what they find as they go along. I was told that when they do have a date, it will posted on the website, and it will be open to the public.

Maybe they are in no hurry. Lets think this through, if I had a choice of working either in Cheyenne or Southern California during this winter, I think the choice is obvious. 

That really isn't logical, as virtually nothing involved with the "rebuild" by the outside contractor can be done while the locomotive sits outdoors. Plus, they still need to get the 4014 over a maintenance pit in order to properly, and safely, service the 16 driver axle roller bearings, as well as the 4 engine truck roller bearings. The 16 axle roller bearings take a different lubricant than the outside rollers on the trailing truck & tender.

According to the last update on Trains mag.com   It would be no sooner than late Nov and at the most early in the new  year.

How hard is it to get the proper lubes for the steam locomotives and tenders?  You are dealing with steam, head and hot oil and fuel.  I guess you just cannot get it at Auto Zone or Granger's.

As usual your typing/spelling skills are confusing. The tender and main axle roller bearings lubes are not at all difficult to obtain, and have nothing to do with "steam, head and hot oil and fuel", what ever THAT means.

There was a pallet sitting there with 8 barrels of lube on it.

Yes but those are for the outside bearings and not the driver axle bearings.

According to Trains mag news wire: 4014 will be move to the panel tracks to check the wheels, bearings, springs, frame, and other parts before the big move later in the year.  Move to panel tracks should happen next week some time.

Yep saw that, week of the 28th...can't wait.