06-18-2016, 07:30 PM
Tomorrow 664 will lead the father's day excursion to Moscow and back so today was a day of last minute fixes and prep work for the trip. Last week she developed a radiator leak on the engineer's side , the side that we didn't replace over last winter. We were able to loosen up a few of the bolts and seal her up with some formagasket.
The pink stains are from the water treatment, it makes it easy to locate leaks in the cooling system. This repair is only temporary, we will have a new set to replace the 70 plus year old ones in a few weeks.
Another project was to replace the glass in the mirrors, these were also original to the locomotive. This shot shows the new glass in the frames with the old mirrors next to them.
We then took her out for a shakedown run throughout the yard limits.
With no leaks and all systems working as they should we took her back to the diesel shop for a bath.
The pink stains are from the water treatment, it makes it easy to locate leaks in the cooling system. This repair is only temporary, we will have a new set to replace the 70 plus year old ones in a few weeks.
Another project was to replace the glass in the mirrors, these were also original to the locomotive. This shot shows the new glass in the frames with the old mirrors next to them.
We then took her out for a shakedown run throughout the yard limits.
With no leaks and all systems working as they should we took her back to the diesel shop for a bath.
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