Bucking Snow 2005 (Live Steam)
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thanks for that really good job.
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great vid
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I believe more than one shay is needed, lol...but great vid!!!
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I appreciated your video. It is one of the very few vids of a true live steam [not sparkie] plowing snow. Before I try to plow I usually leave the loco outside for a couple of hours to cool down the wheels. With the water in your loco, that just wouldn't work. The warm wheels just melt snow and slip on the icey rails. This was a great effort. Thanks for sharing.
JC
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i use a SD-45 to plow the snow off my rails just bought it and it works like a dream, i bought it and a aristocraft snow plow.
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oh well at least you could buy a diesel like burlington santa fe or a south pacific. there perfect for transporting heavy cargo and plowing snow off. ;)
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nice, can you pump water into the boiler when the fires lit?
durangoandsilverton 2 years ago
Yes, there's a check valve between the hand pump output line & the boiler; lets water be pumped into the boiler, but keeps the steam from escaping.
WA1LBK 2 years ago
It was better if you used a bigboy for the job.that way you can save time than going back and foward with that train to plow the snow off ;)
lamoboy 4 years ago
Large-scale BigBoys are typically $3600 (More than TWICE what this engine cost), & require 10-foot RADIUS (20-foot DIAMETER curves)- this railroad's widest curves are 12.5 foot diameter (80" radius); the sharpest are 48" radius (8-foot diameter) - NO WAY a Bigboy would BEGIN to make it around curves like that. Biggest issue here was not so much snow depth as icy rails - I needed scale working sanders! ;)
WA1LBK 4 years ago
Do you ever have problems with a leaking superheater? I have the Accucraft S12 0-6-0 and I've had to replace the superheater twice.
Indyguard20 4 years ago
The Shay isn't superheated - only boiler-related problem I've had is the boiler water feed check valve getting stuck open occaisionally (had to remove it & clean it). I've also replaced the piston O-rings & retimed it for inside admission for better performance in the forward direction.; this engine has a LOT of run time on it! ;)
WA1LBK 4 years ago