Saturday, December 12, 2009

Weekend Steam



AndrzejMastalerz posted this interesting video. He did not provide much info, but I think it is safe to assume that these engines are on their way to a scrapper. The banging noise is not in time to the movement of the rods, so I think it is something hanging down and banging on the crossties.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Anguish.

-gsc1039

Anonymous said...

Sounds more like possibly something like a coal-stoker driveshaft, banging inside the stoker drive somewhere, or possibly a feedwater pump drive that's partly locked-in.

Sad, that - the "Last Mile" for a couple of very old-and very weary-soldiers...

David aka True Blue Sam said...

Good info; thank you!