Nevada State Railroad Museum's Steam Locomotive #8 Has a "Bad Hair Day"

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14 жыл бұрын

This video was left out of the Living Steam DVD. If you like this video then you might like the Living Steam DVD or Blu-Ray disc, available at Amazon.com. There are previews at / livingsteam , or at the livingsteam.com website.
I left this clip out of Living Steam because it shows a breakdown of the Nevada State Railroad Museum's #8 steam locomotive. It was more a cool-down, because the fireman was unable to keep a sufficient fire and the locomotive quit when going up a slight hill. The museum had installed a flow meter to test the locomotive's oil use. Unfortunately, this meter also restricted the oil flow and prevented the fire from running at full blast.
The locomotive comes to a stop, and once the fire is built back up, there's a problem getting the locomotive to move.
You can see throughout the video, when the engineer blasts the whistle, he is trying to save steam. It sounds pretty weak. After a couple runbys, we hop in the cab for the ill-fated run. This locomotive, while part of the collection at the Nevada State Railroad Museum, never was owned by the original Virginia and Truckee Railroad that shut down in 1950. It was run during the 1970's for a year at the Virginia and Truckee Railroad in Virginia City, Nevada. In that sense, it is a true V&T locomotive.
#8 has a colorful history, you can read it at the NSRM-friends.org website at www.nsrm-friends.org/nsrm04.html. Like some of the original V&T locomotives, it was sold to a movie production company in the 1940s and used in various films. This is probably the main reason it didn't go to the scrap pile. It was then acquired by Short Line enterprises and eventually found its way to Carson City, Nevda.
This was shot in late 2007. Currently, in 2010, #8 is down for firebox repairs. Perhaps the volunteers blew it up one too many times, I have seen where rookie firemen let the fire die down at the stations. The fire goes out without their knowing it, but the locomotive still has enough steam to get underway. Once the fireman goes to spray the oil, it hits a hotspot in the firebox and BOOM. I have seen this happen and it felt like an earthquake in the Wabuska depot. Anyway, that's my guess about why the firebox might be damaged, I've seen this multiple times and the volunteers don't bother to inform the mechanical staff who work full-time at the museum.
With the #8 down, #25 pulled the load in 2009. #25 is a real original Virginia and Truckee locomotive, it also worked in the movies before settling in at Carson City's railroad museum. The #25 tender has problems, though, so late last year on Nevada Day I saw #25 pulling the #8 tender you see in this video: • V&T Locomotive #25 and... .

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@isaiahwilliams2642 9 жыл бұрын

Where did you hear that #8 was in "Union Pacific"? She wasn't in that film at all! Just the INYO, BOWKER, DAYTON, and RENO.

@AMTK510 14 жыл бұрын

yeah, I know where you're coming from. I recently switched from Standard Def to Hi-Def. And my Standard Def Camera was Mini DV. I like Mini DV cause you don't have to worry about losing your memories, whereas on SDHC card Cams, you'll have to delete stuff you may not want to if you want more recording time.

@EDWARDSAful 7 жыл бұрын

she needs to be on a MAJOR rebuild

@ScottSchrantz 14 жыл бұрын

By the 1940s freight traffic was the only thing the V&T had going for it. Most of the daily trains only had one or two passengers. They tried to hold onto their freight customers but it was just cheaper to ship by truck. Hwy 395 didn't take over much of the V&T's right of way, though. The ROW is still intact through Carson and Washoe Valleys. It's only in Carson City that roads have taken over the rails. Washington, Longview, and Bigelow all run on the old right of way. But not 395.

@raymondleggs5508 9 жыл бұрын

that awful sounding whistle was the biggest clue something is wrong

@royreynolds108 10 жыл бұрын

I have had that experience of loss of pressure due to low fire on J&CB RR during a cold day and drizzling rain. The fire is from propane with a 6 in. burner. The propane pressure got down to 15 psi so the fire just couldn't keep steam up. She stopped within sight of the depot. Took about 15 minutes to get enough steam to get back in. Rather disconcerting but the passengers didn't get mad.

@AMTK510 14 жыл бұрын

Dude, sweet! What kind of camera do you use.

@EDWARDSAful 7 жыл бұрын

#8 is not likely to run again. she needs an MAJOR rebuild

@Trainlover1995 7 жыл бұрын

I drove by the museum yesterday, and #8s tender is outside coupled to a flatcar.

@Chris9017 2 жыл бұрын

The firebox is shot because she simply just wore out.

@BCSchmerker 8 жыл бұрын

Time 4:00 *I noticed that the engineer* was bouncing from one seat to the other, manipulating several controls. Is the hand pump on the firebox left an emergency feed pump for the boiler, or for the firebox itself? Obviously, if enough fuel cannot reach the burner, this 4-4-0 Cooke won't generate no steam. :-/ As it was, the boiler had only 60 PSI at the crest of the hill in question.

@markfrench8892 5 жыл бұрын

He was trying both injectors that feed the water to the boiler. By law there has to be two on a steam locomotive. Apparently with the pressure so low the injectors weren't working at max capacity so he was using both. Most injectors quit working below 50 psi.