35005 Canadian Pacific

Bit of a sneak peek but LocoYard.com is doing an advent calendar of Christmas/December related railway photos and todays features a photo of CanPac that was taken on Monday.

http://locoyard.files.wordpress.com...ian-pacific-eastleigh-dec-2013-right-view.jpg

 

Gosh I saw that picture and for a minute I thought they were scrapping it !

 

Just goes to show what a good job they are doing stripping her down for inspection, its hard to imagine a couple of months ago she was pretty much in one piece. Lets just hope funding for the locomotive is secured soon so they can begin the hard work of restoring her.

 

LocoYard.com has done a small blog on 35005 in Eastleigh works which shows the progress done by the team working on her. Well worth checking out. http://locoyard.com/2013/12/15/the-beast/

 

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Well worth checking to see some of the progress done on the beast.

 

Interesting read as always...
Ta muchly for posting it, long may your blog flourish.

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Yes it also gets a read over here in Western Canada -- and yes Im from the Uk and an ex CPR employee , as they say keep blogging ...

 

Thanks for the kind words

Dont suppose anyone has any knowledge of the random pipes I removed. Not that important but just got me thnking

 

Yes, but they would be on the right hand side and the article says left - at least, the injector controls are on the right side of the cab on a Bulleid pacific.

Possibly they were part of the steam supply to the brake. Have you got any other description (for example, size, did they run up into the cab etc etc?)
Tom

 

Thanks I have found a photo of Clan Line (below) on Wikipedia in which you can see the unit which was removed next to the rear pony truck. Hopefully that might give people a better understand

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clan_line-2.jpg

 

One pipe went forward towards the front of the locomotive and the second one bent right into the frames and was fitted to a bracket in the center of the frame under the cab floor. Looking at that photo of Clan Line it does make me think it is something to do with the brakes.

 

Looks like a pressure reducing valve - are you sure it doesn't feed the Stones generator behind it? Otherwise maybe part of the AWS system perhaps?

 

It would probably help reassembly if the person concerned found out what the pipe does and attaches a label to that effect!

 

Yes indeed!! And a good photograph record too.

 

I cheated and just texted the guy in charge to ask what it was. Sorry to waste your time

 

.... and it is ...... what ???

 

If I were presented with a pile of bits that was once a complete Norton Dominator, but had been dismantled to the last nut and bolt, I could rebuild it without recourse to a manual. Are there still loco fitters about that could do the same for a Bulleid?

 

Rebuilding a Bulleid pacific without a manual is a bit of a different league to a Norton Dominator but, to answer your question, there are plenty of people out there who could do it. However, pipe runs in particular can be quite awkward, especially lubrication ones. When you are faced with a few hundred similar (but not the same) pipes, knowing which one goes where is 90% of the battle. Without that knowledge, it can be easier, if a lot more expensive, to start from scratch. Jigsaws are always easier if you have a picture to work to, but not impossible.

 

You're so right. During 34081's strip down the lubrication pipes were marked carefully but quite a lot of the marks didn't survive the cleaning. The guy who did most of the work first time around is still on the team so his knowledge is proving invaluable.