Steam on NS

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Hasn't been mentioned so far, but I recall that a couple of main rods and perhaps valve gear parts are missing from # 1218.? Is that correct ?? If the parts are not on the loco, do they even exist anymore ?? I feel fortunate to have seen, filmed, and ridden behind?1218 in action from?1987 to 1994, and don't think it will happen again.
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Jerome Crosson (formerly NJ, now MO).




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Subject: Re: Steam on NS

My understanding is that she was pretty well worn out overall. Specifically, I know the cylinders are not correctly in line with the frame (kind of stuck with that, since it's a solid casting), but that can be dealt with once you know about it. She also has a number of leaky flues and bad stay bolts. I've been told that every time a crew member checked them, they'd find more bad ones. Apparently 1218 had a habit (at least during the NS steam program days) of breaking stay bolts - don't know if that was always the case or not.?
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I got the impression that her problems weren't anything that couldn't be fixed, but they would require massive time and capital, neither of which NS was willing to invest in something that would never return a penny in revenue, let alone profit. Certainly other engines have been resurrected from worse condition (look at some of the Southern engines recently rebuilt or under construction), but they're usually a labor of love and have the benefit of a wealthy foundation to support them. How many of us are willing to give up every spare evening, weekend, and dollar for the foreseeable future in order to see 1218 in steam again? It will take a lot of us...?
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> Does anyone know exactly what problems 1218 had when she was last used > in 1991??

-- Kenneth Rickman - krickman1 at carolina.rr.com?
Salisbury, NC?
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