Locomotive craned onto trailer! OCN 84 on the road to restoration - 5/2024
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- In this video we see Old Colony & Newport Railway 45 tonner 84 get craned onto a tractor trailer. The engine, built in 1941 by General Electric, is in need of repairs and is being sent out for rebuild. The trailer took the locomotive off the island for the first time since 1988 and brought it to the shop where the work will be done. This video follows 84 making its way to the lift site before being loaded and shipped off. Stay tuned for future updates on 84's operational restoration!
Portsmouth & Tiverton, RI
5/2024
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Very cool to finally sew this locomotive get attention, always liked OC&N 84.
Save the old iron
Now that's a good old train of thought to restore this locomotive
Interesting video. 👍
Is it coming back to the island ? And what about the other 45t ?
It will be returning once rebuilt. The other 45T is still in service and gets periodic maintenance. In fact it had its oil changed out within the past few weeks.
Saw 84 on the highway on Friday wondered what they were doing with it
OC&N #84 finally gets the attention it needs. Im glad its getting some mechanical work done on it.
Good to see the old boy getting rebuilt. Who is doing the work?
Maybe Amtrak at Southampton St yard in South Boston, Im not 100% sure
Seaview in North kingstown
I understand that on steam locomotives there need to be counterweights opposite piston attachment points but why here on a locomotive with traction motors?
I believe it's like that because there is only one traction motor on each truck.
The counterweights are there to counterbalance the weight of the side rods. On a steam locomotive, they also have to account for the weight of the main rods and valve gear. Not doing so would result in a lot of vibration at speed, as evidenced in some steam locomotives that had a lot of issues because they didn't get the counterbalancing right.
@@WHJeffB - Makes sense. Thanks for responding.
The steam locomotive designers had a name for the thrust imbalance. It was called dynamic augment. The Pennsy’s whole ill fated journey into duplex locomotives was supposedly to minimize dynamic augment.
Did they temporarily set the locomotive on a second set of trucks to allow the crane to pick and place the trucks on the trailer? Was this because of the weight limitations of the crane? I’ve done this move before with a 45 Tonner and chained the trucks so I could be done in one pick. Total weight if I recall is 92,000 lbs.
The trucks are being replaced with the set that was in the trailer.
Right on with the weight by the way we picked it off all together on the other end.
I must have zoned out at this point... I missed the second pair of trucks. Where did they come from? Are they spares from the RR or did they come from the rebuilder?
Nice video.
Who is doing the restoration?
seaview