Project DL&W 565 progress Report 2010

Hello all,
565 is progressing very nice! Gary P. Bensman has been working with her since March and last Thursday & Friday his crew jacked her up and made her level for the first time in over 30 years. My crew has been working on removing the oil tank out of the coal bunker and needel scaling the cyinder housing and painting Rust converter on them.

Game plan is to restore 565 in two parts Tender and locomotive. While we are waiting on parts to be made for the lead truck we are working on restoring the tender . The leader of project 565 Steve Boonstra will be coming home from his tore of duty in Iraq some time early July and will start working with us again some time in October or November. He'll be doning family stuff in between those's months.

Here are a few photo's of the project.
Enjoy,
Len Shaner
Co - Volunteer Lead

Here is a crew photo this was taken May 16Th.

Right to Left Len Shaner, J.T. Ciampaglia, Jim Kaufman and Matt W.
565 and her head light lit beside her, Also take a look where the lead wheel set is on the front polit beam then see where it is in this next photo.




FIRST ATTEMPT TO REPLACE SMOKE BOX COVER , then we found out there are bolts bent so we are going to repace all 50.



Here's a video of this , it was taken by a crew member.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSe3_b_Z9zs

We gave the tender a spin on the table on May 1 TH.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfNGY0Rw ... re=related

This is our Project leader and his wife Mollie when he was home on leave back in April.


Here's J. T. needel scaling the vavel housing


Matt W. Doing some needel scaling


That's all for now.

Hi all,
We are making real good progress on DL&W 565. This last workday our special guess was our Leader Steve Boonstra him self, it was a first time meeting for most of us and He is a complete nut, He fits in real well with the rest of us.

I got to Steamtown at 7:30Am and got started right away on our tender coating the top decking with Rust Converter so it would stop the surface rusting. Steve came in at 8:00 AM. and it was interesting. for a Year and a half we were talking back and forth by either Phone or while he was over in Iraq by Email and IM through Face book. Now to talk face to face. it was strange. At 9:00 AM. Matt came in and he started to paint on the rust converter were I left off at.
Then Steve and I walked around the complex and looking over MC. No. 519 another Aloco but a 2-8-0 . Her Lead is the same type for what 565 has. we can uses 519's for diagrams for ours of the parts we need to make. Then after looking 519 over we climb up in her cab to see where our cab parts will go once everything is completed. we found out she's missing stuff too.
We then took a walk over to the scrap dock and look over there for a set of locomotive springs for our front driver and after we walked around we head back in . We met up with Mark St. Aubon and he met Steve and we all walked over to 565 , Mark torch off the bolts between the tender and chassis so when we are ready to remove the body from the chassis we'll be already for that.
After lunch we had the guy's from the shop move our tender again for the second time of the day the first time was with NKP 514 for only a few feet back to the doors, but after thinking it over we thought we should have it turn on the table and shoved back in to the stall. But this time with the Case Loader for the Car Movers were Land Locked and were unable to be used. Now the front of the tender was facing out. this made it a lot easier to work on taking off the bumper and bolster beam , As Mr. Conrad our historical consulton said "it looked like Steve was having to much fun." Joe said "he needed to tone it down."
At our next workday which will be some time mid October we will continue on removing other parts of the tender and we still need to sand blast other small and medium parts in the big blasting booth.
Steve is going to contact Mark Birtel and find out when and where we can take the tank off and start to restore the chassis of the wooden beams , but first we need to sand blast the chassis.
So with that we are making good progress on this project thanks to all the help from our dedicated crew members and Steamtown Shop people.
That's all for now.
Leonard F. Shaner, JR.
Co - Volunteer Lead
Http://projectdlw565.webs.com


Lead and Co Lead on the front of 565.


Matt Painting rust converter on tender top decking.


Mark St.Aubon , Len Shaner and Steve Boonstra looking over the tender mounting bolts

Tender taking a spin on the table




Parts that were removed by Steve and crew


Bolster Beam


Looking at tender after bumper and wooden beam was removed.
Here is the video the goes with our workday.
Part One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K8sLKCSCdM

Part Two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3lP8HqWpik

Part Threehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTHTy1LAXVI

Photo's from Lead Wheel Workday on Sunday, October 24, 2010


First photo The 565 crew around the wheel lathe Left to Right Dan, JT, Steve, Matt and Len.


Left to Right Dan, JT, Steve, Bruce, Matt and Jim


Bruce Mowbray Steamtown Shop Employee


565 lead wheel being resuface for the journal brasses.
First time in over 50 years a lackawanna steam wheel set to be turn in the lackawanna locomotive shop. It was also the first time that the new crane was used since being installed last week.


Dan, Bruce and Steve talking about the Lead Wheel frame

Lead Wheel frame bolted togther.


Lead Wheel frame with one of the Journals

http://projectdlw565.webs.com

Here's the video from our latest workday on Sunday November 21.
Len.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw_1Ib6x9DQ