SDC Railroad

[rubedugans]

Kissing up to the conductors I see! Seems as if we all have our "side projects" that fit into our interests. We are definately not a bunch of lazy bloggers are we? We should pool our resources and do something with it! (Cue feverish montage of all of us working hard turning bolts, welding,calander pages are flipping through the months to show the passage of time, sewing humongous bolts of fabric, painting....Finally we finish, and we stand back admiring our handywork, and we pan back to see  ... a 5 in. ship in a bottle). Man we are good!

[SteamFreak]

No Rube, it would be a tiny NO. 76 in a bottle...

[SteamFreak]

Now, Just in case ANYONE Cares, Here are the break-downs of the engines.

No. 76:
Wheels: 4-4-2
Builder: Davenport Locomotive Works
Build Date: 01/1922
Construction No.: 1900
Empty Weight: Unk
Weight on Drivers: Unk
Driver Diameter: 22
Tractive Effort: 3,180
Boiler Pressure: 140
Cylinders: 7x12
Fuel: Oil
Gauge: 600mm

No. 43:
Wheels: 2-4-0T
Builder: Orenstein & Koppel
Build Date: 1934
Construction No.: 12503
Empty Weight: 19,800
Weight on Drivers: 19,800
Driver Diameter: 22
Tractive Effort: 4,590
Boiler Pressure: 140
Cylinders: 8.5x11.75
Fuel: Oil
Gauge: 600mm

No. 13:
Wheels: 2-4-0T
Builder: Orenstein & Koppel
Build Date: 1938
Construction No.: 13168
Empty Weight: 24,200
Weight on Drivers: 19,000
Driver Diameter: 25
Tractive Effort: 6,757
Boiler Pressure: 170
Cylinders: 9.5x13
Fuel: Oil
Gauge: 600mm

This one is in storage:

Wheels: 0-4-0T
Builder: Henschel & Son (Kassel)
Build Date: 1918
Construction No.: 15918
Empty Weight: 24,200
Weight on Drivers: 24,200
Driver Diameter: 24.5
Tractive Effort: 6,200
Boiler Pressure: 170
Cylinders: 9.5x11.75
Fuel: Oil
Gauge: 600mm

[sdcforever]

^And all this time I thought they were replicas.

[SteamFreak]

Here's what they would have looked like when the herchends bought them. And now....

[shavethewhales]

Wow, we could really use this stuff on the main site, this is a lot of interesting info!

[SteamFreak]

I'll write an article and send it to you.

[History Buff]

Oh, SteamFreak, you just played right into his hands with that commitment!

When you write the article, could you pretend we're all about eight years old?

[SteamFreak]

Yeah...the choo choo chugs down the twack....

[History Buff]

Whoa!  Too far - I said eight years, not eight months. 

[SteamFreak]

Never was good at math. One time, I though 2 + 2 was 4 ha...everyone knows that 3+1

[shavethewhales]

Finally got SteamFreak's info up: http://sdcfans.com/attBio.php?id=75

Lots of neat info.

[marolinesdad]

I rode the train last weekend and noticed some old games and things that used to be around the park are now hanging on the fence by Powder Keg.  You know the ones that would ask you a question and you had to life the little wooden doors covering the answers..    Anyway.  I really miss seeing those kind of things around the park.  The are very few left.  One is by the bathrooms on Hill Street.

[SteamFreak]

UPDATE: I was taking to an engineer yesterday who told me that a restoration of the Henry Ford engine was about to begin, not only for display but it's possible if a larger boiler is used that it will once again see service on the rails, once this process begins I'll try and create some sort of blog on here to track the process.

[marolinesdad]

"Track" the progress....   lol...