Cause of Death explained!

the cause of death of many early locomotives is the plane friction bearing let's say somebody gives you this locomotive you or your organization under the condition that it's got to be moved the plant where is that they're going to build condos it's still on the rail the rail still connects to the railroad the locomotive's got value it's got historical significance [Music] but more than likely it'll get cut up and why is that plain bearings it's not going to roll on the class one so you've got four main choices cut it up we all hate that truck it which we're going to get into just a little bit load it on a flat car which is problematic in that this weighs more than 100 tons so you can't put it on a standard flat car you're going to have to have a depressed well car with multi-axles or there are flat cars with six axles that could take that then you've gotta tie it down on the car which is another project in itself number four is modify the trucks so we're gonna touch on a couple of those and then continue just a little bit into why this happened and how it happened so if you were going to modify the trucks you would take this end of the axle and machine it to to hold an ap bearing i talked to jim at lions industries in pennsylvania jim's been doing this work for a long time he would turn off the flange there at the end of the axle take a pass on the bearing surface and drill and tap the holes in the end of the axle push on ap bearings reconditioned ones all for one thousand two hundred dollars an axle he can convert this plane bearing to roller bearing for one thousand two hundred dollars per axle including the bearings now the bearing box the journal box gets a 250 dollar modification which is taking out the oil seal in the back and uh machining out there's a couple ears in there so that the correct adapter will go up in there so you could take an older locomotive lift the locomotive roll the truck out disassemble the truck strip the axles down send them away get the machine get bearings put on them bring them back reassemble the truck put it back under the locomotive and then the axles would be acceptable but then there's some other issues that we maybe talk about in the future end of car cushioning draft gear and the air brake test so that's what it would take to modify the trucks a couple other options that people do they put an idler truck underneath it but it does not have air cylinders on it for the brakes so you can roll one around in your yard on dummy trucks but you it won't go out on the railroad because it does not break cylinders and you could disassemble the truck and put freight car axle in it with no traction motors it would have ap bearings on the end you'd have to modify the boxes not a bad idea but you still end up with a lot of crane and disassembly of the trucks those are all problems for modifying the trucks [Music] here's a big old rock island locomotive being moved on a modular transporter this is a youtube video locomotive rides truck in city streets this was an expensive move go watch that video and look at the crane time the spmt time uh trucks are being hauled on on a different tractor trailer this is an expensive move you've got to have big donors a lot of money yourself or government agency helping you on a project like this [Music] okay this is a friend of mine jim from over-the-top construction and transport moving an alco rs3 on rubber tires right down the street this is not inexpensive it is not easy to do but it can be done and jim can do it and does it all the time this is a youtube video called highball 25 or saving the adirondack 25. great video shows you how complex and how detailed a locomotive move is over the street so i'm here today at the hawking valley railway this is a really neat organization in nelsonville ohio a lot of nice equipment and we're going to look at some of their equipment and the roller bearings and the journal bearings yeah it's hot yeah i'm sweaty but this is a good example of what they have here so this royal caboose is going to be an excellent little classroom for us what i want to point out here is here's your plain bearing this is the waist area oil and there's your bearing so if you look at a truck frame it'll give you some interesting clues as to what's going on first thing we're going to see here this journal is five and a half by ten five and a half inches diameter 10 inches long and this truck apparently built in 48 6 of 48 just showing the evolution away from plane bearing which could be stolen took a lot of maintenance caused problems toward ap roller bearing and i did like the story of how tempkin really pushed the name friction i was used to seeing it in the other video kind of playing into timkin's hand calling it friction this is a good view of a journal box that's in the truck side frame inching i'm looking at the oil down there that's where a little bit of oil has come out of the back of that seal so that looks a lot like the journal box that we took off the locomotive except for of course it's part of the side frame there is no equalizer the side frame is what takes the weight down onto the top of the axle [Music] so this is your ap bearing three bolts on the end this is the bearing itself of course there's a adapter that fits on top takes the weight directly down onto the bearing onto the axle [Music] ah i found it it is a hot sweaty day but i found it this is what you wanted to see it's what i wanted to see this is roller bearings put in an old plane bearing box so what do you see when you walk up to it or see it from a distance i could have started that a little further out no lids that should tell you something's going on well what's going on is you don't need the lids anymore because that's got a tim can roller bearing in it notice the three bolts we talked about that being your indicator that had a roller bearing and like i mentioned down at the other end of the yard you put a hole in it so that water and debris now look at this this is interesting this has got a big piece of ballast in there you don't want stuff like that in there that's what i was looking for because that's the intermediate step between friction plain bearing and roller bearing as we saw down the way there so this is it this is converted let's see if we can get the date off the side of this truck 1947 so who knows what year the conversion was done take off the lid put a hole in the bottom of the box put the different type of adapter up in there and then put the whole thing back together you won't need the seal in the back of the box anymore the seal slid right down in this slot and you'll notice there is no seal in there now you don't need it because the ap bearing the roller bearing the tempkin roller bearing is lubricated for light this right here is a defect card holder where they would staple still got a couple staples in it where they would staple paperwork regarding what kind of repair the car needed now this old car here while we're here built in 1923 riveted if you see a ship on the great lakes that's riveted you're looking at an older ship same with rail cars also look how this is held down by this large strap with the turnbuckle and and wood cribbing in there as the buffer utlx which is union tank car like to know the history of that so that's just about going to wrap it up for our journal box journal bearing plane bearing friction bearing mop head got to keep it lubricated or you'll have a hot box lesson i've really enjoyed having you guys along this is a blast for me i'd love to know all of you and do this together but through modern technology we can share it i almost guarantee you're not as sweaty as i am right now thank you all you

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Length: 10min 33sec (633 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 01 2021