So, slow but steady continues to be the watchword of the day. Here’s what’s gone on lately: 1. Randy W. and Kyle C. continue in their ultra-sounding. They are finding small problem areas here and there, but nothing earth shattering. All thus far have been in areas easy to patch. 2. Monday the 12th, Matt […]
We had a lot of volunteers show up for the Flue Party on Monday. Take a look!
The Portland Winter Light Festival that was held at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center earlier this month was a great success. There was a very large turnout, and a lot of happy faces. The SP&S 700 and her two steam stablemates were beautifully displayed.
The PRPA has had females on it’s work crews as far back as to its original crew under Chris McLarney. Amy is one of our newest volunteers and she was cleaning up the ends on the lay after the safe ends were cut today.
Greg Kamholz is the senior volunteer locomotive engineer of the SP&S 700, and over the years he has donated both his time and his skills to the operations of this beautiful piece of history..In addition to this, through a very generous and substantial donation to the boiler certification fund, he recently became one of our […]
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.
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
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]