Danbury Railway Museum Thread

[Jeff Smith]

Nice blurb from Trains: http://trn.trains.com/en/Railroad%20New ... ineup.aspx

■An RS1 built in 1948 as Illinois Terminal Railroad No. 753. It then served Gulf, Mobile & Ohio and Illinois Central. The museum purchased it in 1995 from the Green Mountain Railroad, where it was in service as recently as December 1995. It currently wears New Haven Railroad colors and is numbered New Haven 0673. Railroads purchased 417 examples of the RS1 model between 1941 and 1960. This 19-year production run is the longest for any diesel locomotive produced in the United States.
■An RSC2 built in 1949 as Seaboard Air Line No. 1513. It then went to Florida Power & Light, the New Hope & Ivyland, and Northern Central Railroad. It is privately owned and on long-term lease to the museum. Between October 1946 and April 1950, Alco produced seventy RSC2s. It employs a 12-cylinder, 1,500 hp engine. The A-1-A + A-1-A wheel arrangement lowered the axle load for operation on branch lines or routes with lighter rails.
■An RS-3m (m for modified prime mover) built in 1952 as Delaware, Lackawanna & Western RS3 No. 912, one of 1,418 RS3s produced. It went to Conrail in 1976, and was repowered with a 1,200 hp EMD engine in 1979. Originally the locomotive had a 1,600 hp Alco engine. It served Conrail and then Metro North Railroad. It is currently numbered Connecticut Department of Transportation No. 605, and was used as the switcher at Metro North’s Harmon, N.Y. shop.

Also in the museum’s collection but currently undergoing restoration is former New Haven RS11 No. 1402. New Haven owned 15 1,800 hp RS11s built in 1956, and originally equipped with steam generators for passenger service. The locomotives were later reassigned to freight duty.

Keep up the good work!

Duplicate ALCO discussion post here: http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopi ... =4&t=96605 to generate interest.

[andre]

Havent had a chance to post in the past couple of weeks, (taking care of some stuff at home) however I was up last weekend.

We began preliminary work on the roof, identifying spots where leaks may penetrate in the future, preping the roof to be primed will be the current concentration. Devising a way to clean the rust off the roof (steel wool and a light detergent) Also ran into a slight obstacle with the window frames as they still contain their original shades and in order to remove the frame that holds the window pane in place you need to first remove the window shades then the brackets then the frame will come out. Nothing a little soaking in WD-40 cant do.

Also we did some minor work on cleaning up the pantographs (scraped about a good centimeter of caked up and dried grease off the chain of it and relubed it. to ensure that no water can penetrate the fine/small parts of the pantograph.

Pictures will be posted soon.

[Otto Vondrak]

Devising a way to clean the rust off the roof (steel wool and a light detergent).

Mechanical needle scalers are what you need. Not steel wool and detergent. You'll be up there for months.

Now ask me how I know about removing old tar and paint from a steel roof without damaging it. Go on, ask...

http://rgvrrm.blogspot.com/2012/04/time ... -c254.html

-otto-

[DutchRailnut]

needle scalers on a stainless steel roof ???, one quike way to send those cars to scrapper.

[Otto Vondrak]

needle scalers on a stainless steel roof ???, one quick way to send those cars to scrapper.

Go on, I'm listening...

[andre]

needle scalers on a stainless steel roof ???, one quick way to send those cars to scrapper.

Go on, I'm listening...

no paint currently on the roof, roof isnt stainless either, (carbon steel) no need for a needle scaler on the roof (perhaps for the ends on some spots but not the roof)

[Otto Vondrak]

no paint currently on the roof, roof isnt stainless either, (carbon steel) no need for a needle scaler on the roof (perhaps for the ends on some spots but not the roof)

If there's no paint on the roof, why are you going up there with steel wool? Unless you enjoy hard work?

-otto-

[Cosmo]

no paint currently on the roof, roof isnt stainless either, (carbon steel) no need for a needle scaler on the roof (perhaps for the ends on some spots but not the roof)

If there's no paint on the roof, why are you going up there with steel wool? Unless you enjoy hard work?

-otto-

Heeheehee, guys... this is getting to be like an Abbot and Costello routine.

Andre, can you please tell us just how much of what is on the roof so we can comprehend why you want to use "steel wool and detergent"?

[Ridgefielder]

Another small time lapse up showing yesterday's work. All of the insulators have been cleared out and stored, and other work was done.

VIDEO: http://youtu.be/1McS8cyQbI0

Have to say it's very cool that so much of the original interior was still intact under all the junk.

[gregorygrice]

Photos from the roof work will be up later today.

[gregorygrice]

First set of photos from last saturday.

[gregorygrice]

Second set

[gregorygrice]

Third set. Video will be up soon

[andre]

no paint currently on the roof, roof isnt stainless either, (carbon steel) no need for a needle scaler on the roof (perhaps for the ends on some spots but not the roof)

If there's no paint on the roof, why are you going up there with steel wool? Unless you enjoy hard work?

-otto-

Heeheehee, guys... this is getting to be like an Abbot and Costello routine.

Andre, can you please tell us just how much of what is on the roof so we can comprehend why you want to use "steel wool and detergent"?

lots and lots of dust and rust that needs to be scrubbed off. Cant paint over dirt grime and rust it will just flake off, always best to paint on a clean prepped surface

in the long run it will allow a very nice even smooth paint job that will last longer.

[Jeff Smith]

A little "cross-promotion" in case you guys want to rent some of your "equipment" to Hollywood!

Railroads in Television Thread recently discussing "Mad Men" and 4400's.