The public is welcome to join us for the Annual Members meeting. We hope to see you there! The doors will open at 9:00am. The address: 7688 SW Capitol Hwy, Room #7, in Portland, Oregon.
ANNUAL MEETING – JANUARY 20, 2018
December 20, 2017
Author: SPS700
New Swaging Die Tested
November 22, 2017
Harlan Hoult trying out the new swaging die. It is set up on a 50 ton press and the hydraulic ram is pushing the large flue tube safe end into the die. There are a few minor adjustments to be made, but overall it was a successful trial run. Photo by: Matt Baccitich
Thank you Oregon Cultural Trust!
November 12, 2017
The SP&S 700 steam locomotive rebuild/inspection project is now supported in part by a grant from the Oregon Cultural Trust. We received a grant of $17,818 that will go towards work done on the SPS 700’s rebuild through to August 2018. Also, the Oregon Cultural Trust has a great state tax credit program for Oregon […]
Monday Report
November 7, 2017
“We had a very productive Monday. We stuffed the first super heater unit of the second row as a test fit – slid right in. You can see the differences from the first row to the second, namely the bifurcates on the down pipes. We also removed all the threaded pipe fittings from the soon […]
Work Progress – Message from our President
November 3, 2017
Here’s what’s been going on Ultra sounding continues to progress at a stately pace. This is the one thing which seems to regularly happen on Saturdays. We are still working in the “stayed” area (firebox, combustion chamber, wrapper sheet, throat sheet) where things are held together with stay bolts, and we are supposed to take […]
Ultrasound Testing Continues
October 8, 2017
We took the fireman’s side blowdown valve off so we could take a peak inside the boiler walls. George O. had his camera and we attached it to a tape line and ran it inside the washout plugs to get a view inside the boiler. It feeds to his phone screen so we could view clearly. […]
Ultra-sounding Continues
October 3, 2017
Making a clean finish for ultrasounding. Kyle C and Mark S during yesterday’s workday. All the readings on both flue sheets came in good and within limits.
Inside the Firebox
September 25, 2017
Kyle C and Randy W were doing ultrasound on the flue sheet inside the firebox last week. Randy took this photo of Kyle up in the combustion chamber as he was grinding spots for readings.
Piping Recon
September 21, 2017
Matt and Jeff were recently mapping out the best way to remove and install the steam supply pipes under the jacketing. Steam engines have a lot of pipes and are complicated, but our mechanical are on top of it. Thank you, Matt and Jeff!
Work Continues
September 10, 2017
Jeff Honeyman heating a fitting inside the cab, as we work on replacing some of the plumbing. Photo by Bill Hamby