Engine 69 Rebuild

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Photo by WP&YR staff member: Gil Dominguez
Photo by WP&YR staff member: Gil Dominguez
   
Photo by Pat Reece/yukoninfo.com
Photo by Pat Reece/yukoninfo.com
           
Assembled lead truck.
Assembled lead truck wheel set.
Assembled left cylinder.
Backhead.
Barrel cutout.
Barrel patch.
Barrel patch welded in place.
Bioler front.
Checking out driving box fit.
Connecting rod assembly.
Corner patch bolt holes.
Corner patch bolts hammered.
Corner patch bolts installed.
Cutting check valve seat.
Driven stay bolts.
Driving box fitting into the frame.
Finished new cylinder head.
Finished new dry pipe.
Frame coming down on the drivers.
Frame jacket up with the wheels under it.
Front of new cab.
Front tube sheet.
Heating front flue sheet.
Knuckle pins with new bearings.
Lowering the center of the frame.
Lowering the front of the frame.
Machining main rod brass.
Machinist Jim.
Measuring frame height.
New brake hanger.
New cab.
New crown bar bolt.
New deck on tender under frame.
New dome lide.
New left side sheet.
New rod brasses.
New shoes and wedges mounted in place.
New smoke box.
New smoke stack.
New try cock.
New wrist pin.
Painted frame.
Painted spring rigging.
Painted tender tank.
Painting cylinders.
Piston rod in crosshead.
Preparing bolster for new center plates.
Pressing 1st wheel.
Rods test assembled.
Smoke box liner.
Spring rigging on frame.
Start of new wrist pin.
Strong man.
Welded front flue sheet.
 
Welder.
Welding draw bar pocket.
Wheel set in press.
Wheels under frame.
Wrist pin brass.

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