April 2001 – RITZVILLE, WASHINGTON: The SP&S 700 smoked it up for a photo run-by on day three of a four-day round trip from Portland, Oregon to Spokane, Washington and back. This stunning photo was taken by, and used with permission from: Steve Barry / www.RailroadPhotographer.com
We got a lot of ultrasounding done on the left (fireman’s) side. The readings were good….even excellent. We even got readings done back in behind the air pumps.
Upon reviewing some of our ultrasound results, we hired a local Industrial and Mechanical Contracting company (CH Murphy) to assist us in the removal of sections that need repaired and/or replaced. In this image, a CH Murphy employee is cutting out some of the throat sheet. As you can see in the image, the floor […]
Yesterday, the guys did the labor intensive task of lifting a superheater from ground level, up in and through the smokebox, to be tested for a fit. Having a forklift was quite helpful, but still, it took several guys to accomplish the task at hand. The good news is that everything worked out as hoped. […]
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.
“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 […]
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.
Jeff Honeyman removing a mounting bolt with the impact wrench. He is one of Board of Directors and spends a lot of hands on time working on the engine. Photo by: Bill Hamby