Work Photos

Door Sheet Adjustments March 3, 2003
Here we see the door sheet held inside the mudring with braces for final fitting. There is row of bolts holding it onto the mud ring along the bottom edge, and the two more…

Crown Sheet Removal Crown Sheet Removal December 4, 2002
An interesting picture here that gives a rare view of the top of the firebox crown sheet from inside the boiler, looking to the rear. As you can see, we are in the process of flame more…

Machining new seats on the throttle body and seating the spool.Machining new seats on the throttle body and seating the spool. October 29, 2002
In this picture you can see the throttle spool in our tracer lathe, having had the two seats just cut. They are the shiny bands near the right and left ends. Both seats are more…

Removal of mudring rivets Removal of mudring rivets October 6, 2002
Having removed the firebox flue sheet, we now have to remove the mudring. This means driving out a couple of hundred 7/8” diameter rivets about 6 inches long.

In the old more…

Door Sheet Installed Door Sheet Installed October 1, 2002
This photo, taken from just in front of the firebox flue sheet and looking backward though the firebox, shows the door sheet in place and bolted to the mudring along the bottom. more…

Riveting the side sheets to the backhead Riveting the side sheets to the backhead September 7, 2002
Here you can see the four 7/8″ diameter steeple head rivets that we’ve driven to connect the side (wrapper) sheet to the backhead repair piece, at the rear of the more…

Tapping Washout Plug Holes Tapping Washout Plug Holes August 22, 2002
There are 4 washout holes, located just above the mudring in the new section of backhead. There are 15 or so of these holes on the entire boiler. Their purpose is to allow us more…

Dry Pipe Cut Dry Pipe Cut August 8, 2002
#21 is fitted with a Ruston Balanced Throttle which is located in the steam dome. This is the large dome in the middle which is easily seen in all the photos. It is more…

Jacking Beam Attached to Backhead Jacking Beam Attached to Backhead July 27, 2002
Here we are welding an 8″ H-beam to 8 1/2″ x 3″ L shaped brackets that are attached to the backhead with bolts though the 2nd and 3rd row of staybolts. Right more…

Firebox Door Sheet Flanged Firebox Door Sheet Flanged July 16, 2002
Here you can see the entire process. Notice how the new sheet is clamped to the old sheet/die near to the edges to be more…

Firebox Door Sheet Ready to Flange July 13, 2002
The firebox door sheet gets its final preparations before flanging. Seams between the extensions were welded up by John and Stuart. more…

Outer Wrapper Patches Welded. July 5, 2002
The sides of the boiler wrapper down low and under the cab wasted away from outside. A new patch panel was cut bent and drilled. And is now being welded in place. The bolts more…

Firebox Door Sheet Die Corners Added June 29, 2002
The old riveted firebox has seams where the sheets overlapped over each other. The door sheet was against the mudring extending about one inch past the seam, tapering down to more…

Backhead Welded! June 23, 2002
After many hours of preperation the repair panel that replaces over 2/3rds of the backhead was welded in. more…

Doorway Formed June 11, 2002
The doorway hole in the door sheet is heated by John before the 600 ton press comes down to complete the forming of the more…

Firebox Door Sheet Die Built June 6, 2002
ARPA will be installing a new welded fire box in #21. The riveted seams inside the firebox are going to be welded, This was a standard practice in the latter days of steam. It more…

Washout Plug Holes Drilled June 3, 2002
The new backhead sheet was at Carruthers Equipment’s, so we decided to drill the new holes required for the washout plugs. These holes will allow a fire hose to be inserted to more…

Replacement Backhead Off For The Last Time. May 25, 2002
The backhead was removed for what should be the final time. In the foreground you can see Casey beveling the trimmed edges in preparation for the eventual caulking of the seam. more…

Come Ring the Bell! May 19, 2002
#21 bell was stolen in the early 1980’s while the locomotive was stored in Northern California. While ARPA is still looking for #21 original bell, the bell you see was more…

Patch Bolt Holes Drilled. May 11, 2002
At the bottom of the firebox there is a steel ring which sediment collects on. It is called the “Mud Ring”. The mud ring is used to attach the firebox to the boiler more…

Mudring Rivets Get Drilled. April 29, 2002
Casey Cochran tries out ARPA’s recently acquired magnetic base drill, which was purchased with funds from recent fund raisers. The mag drill weighs about 90 pounds so Dennis Guyon more…

Crab Festival 2002 April 29, 2002
The weekend of April 26th – 28th ARPA displayed parts of #21 at the 20th Annual Crab & Seafood Festival. The Astoria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Commerce sponsored the event and more…

Cab Prepared for Painting. April 21, 2002
All the parts of the cab were finally riveted together. Every one should be able to see the cab and the bell at the Crab Festival next weekend. There are lots of people more…

Firebox Wrapper Arrives April 13, 2002
Here you can see all the steel for the new firebox. The wrapper sheet was rolled into shape by Marks Metal Technology of Clackamas Oregon. The temporary brace had to be more…

Backhead Doorway March 21, 2002
The doorway in the new backhead sheet was formed Thursday March 21st at K Manufacturing. On the left Bryan Koskela watches as his fathers 600 ton press brake comes down more…

Students from AHS help. March 9, 2002
Here you can see the group of students from Astoria High School’s “Club de Union Juvenil” that are helping clean out the inside of the car. more…

Backhead Doorway Flanged March 7, 2002
We have started to form the new manhole doorway in the new backhead. The female die was bolted to the bottom of the new backhead plate. The die was then clamped to a platen. more…

Riveting Cab Angles June 7, 2001
New angle iron was purchased to replace the straight pieces that were left attached to the old sections of the cab. This was puchased as part of a group buy with the crew that is more…

Jeff & Dan’s Backhead Beat June 5, 2001
Work on the back of the boiler is progressing carefully and steadily. We have built a die to flange the compound radius bends in the backhead (outside, back of the more…

Smokebox Stackhole May 23, 2001
Jeff Eagle and crew have been working on the smokebox. The forward ring was drilled and then riveted to the already rolled sheet. We were then able to position it on the more…