AT&SF 940

[Acela026]

Here is a link to the ATSF 940, located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.  She is the last of her kind, an AT&SF 2-10-2.  She was built in 1903 by BLW and currently is resting on 200 feet of track, waiting for cab and tender lettering.  I'll keep ya updated!

www.bartlesvillelocomotive.org

[Gunns]

She is a good looking locomotive,

Here is a link to our site, looks like we have the same bell. (Grin)

2926 restoration

With a little luck some day we may be able to come visit.

Regards,

Kevin

[Acela026]

I looked at the website, good job so far!  I hope you can get the funds to accomplish your goal! 

Unfortunatly, we will not be restoring the 940 to running order, she will just be sitting next to the depot.  We are trying to restore her to look (to the average person) like she could run, but it would just all around cost too much, we would have no plac eto put her out of the weather when she wasn't running, and no place to run her except on the mainline that runs through town.

Acela026

[Gunns]

 I understand,

However cosmetic restoration and care now, makes an operational restoration possable some time in the future. Care for the "girls" is never wasted.  

I have good friends in Tulsa, the next time we get out there we will try to swing by. Of course I have to convince the wife ("Another train??")

Regards,

Kevin

Acela026

I looked at the website, good job so far!  I hope you can get the funds to accomplish your goal! 

Unfortunatly, we will not be restoring the 940 to running order, she will just be sitting next to the depot.  We are trying to restore her to look (to the average person) like she could run, but it would just all around cost too much, we would have no plac eto put her out of the weather when she wasn't running, and no place to run her except on the mainline that runs through town.

Acela026

[Acela026]

The lettering on the tender and sand dome have been completed.  The front of the smokebox has also been painted a sharp shade of silver.  Next will be the cab lettering and painting the inside of the cab the original green and red colors.

Acela

[Acela026]

Not much to report.  Our restoration efforts continue, although slowed a bit by the winter.  THree of four securtiy cameras have been installed (and wired in) and we are working on a way to let the visitors blow the whistle.  The bell is also being worked on so it is easier to ring. 

Acela

[Acela026]

We just had the whole thing rewired, headlight, cablights, etc.  The lights behind the numberboards are being replaced.  The original buildersplate has never been on the locomotive (since it was in AT&SF service), but we do have the plate from when it was rebuilt  in 1909.  THat has been taken off and a copy is being made now.  The original will be kept inside the adjacent depot. 

Acela

[Acela026]

We are now taking the first few 'baby steps' towards getting the whistle operable.  Here is our plan now. 

• A heavy-duty compressor will be housed in an old cement electrical building (about 5' x 5' x 7' is my best guess) we have moved about 50' away from the end of the display tracks.
• An air line will be run about 3-8" under the ballast and up to the tender where it will then travel into a 200-250 gallon resivoir.
• A line will be run from the resivoir to the whistle. We are trying to route the pipe very descreetly so only the most eagle eyed foamers could notice.

That is the next thing on our agenda.  Hopefully we will get it done by March or April.  Once that happens we will set up some sort of mechanism so the whistle blows at noon everyday. 

More To be announced soon.

Acela

[Acela026]

We are estimating around 30-45 days until the whistle is operable.  One man has been found who may be able to provide the compressor.  Also in our brainstorms, "we have 200 feet of track...why not use it all? "  In other words, we may be looking for some old rolling stock to put behind her.  In the idea gets off theground, we would like to aquire 2 tank cars, a Phillips 66 and a Conoco. 

Acela

[Acela026]

Wow, it has been a while since this thread has been updated!  Okay, so here is what we have done so far:

• Finished cosmetic restoration on the 940
• Her whistle is hooked up to a large air compressor and reservoir, can be blown on the weekends
• AT&SF caboose no. 2259 has a full cosmetic restoration outside
• Currently working on 2259's inside, full cosmetic restoration
• Just bought an original AT&SF coal stove for 2259
• 2259 is coupled to the 940
• 191* tank car purchased, waiting for frame to be fabricated (funding)
• Tank car will also receive full cosmetic restoration

Here are some photos I took the other day, practicing my photography was my main goal. Let me know what you think, please! Comments/'constructive criticisms welcomed

I had the camera  (a Nikon D90) on full automatic. Unfortunately low clouds rolled in at sunset and ruined the beautiful deep-blue sky we had earlier in the day.  

More information about the 940 project can be found at bartlesvillelocomotive.org, and on Facebook. I'm not sure how often either gets updated, however.

For more photos I've taken, see the link in my signature. 

Thanks, 

Acela

[efftenxrfe]

Besides displaying photographs, I think there are pictures...other words: not just a visual recording but showing artistic inclinations.

The 3/4 shots, so sterile often, have some drama; the eng and cab have room behind to shove out; the caboose shot makes it loom massively; the caboose with a portion of the engines tank has stuff growing above the cupola and adjacent, the signal bridge, and they seem to be part of the shot, not intruders (hard to pull-off.)

The segment shots work proportionately. By not centering vertically or horizontilaly, you keep the viewer's eye from stopping at the subject but lure it to tour the rest of the image.

OK, Art 101.

Railroader person talk: having inspected many wheels and trucks iexploden my 42 yrs of SP engine service, I found 1 cracked driiver on an ALCO S-6.

That LFM above the AT&SF picture, yes picture, exploded a thought that Locomotive Finished Materrials  was a GM subsidiary?

[efftenxrfe]

Besides displaying photographs, I think there are pictures...other words: not just a visual recording but showing artistic inclinations.

The 3/4 shots, so sterile often, have some drama; the eng and cab have room behind to shove out; the caboose shot makes it loom massively; the caboose with a portion of the engines tank has stuff growing above the cupola and adjacent, the signal bridge, and they seem to be part of the shot, not intruders (hard to pull-off.)

The segment shots work proportionately. By not centering vertically or horizontilaly, you keep the viewer's eye from stopping at the subject but lure it to tour the rest of the image.

OK, Art 101.

Railroader person talk: having inspected many wheels and trucks iexploden my 42 yrs of SP engine service, I found 1 cracked driiver on an ALCO S-6.

That LFM above the AT&SF picture, yes picture, exploded a thought that Locomotive Finished Materrials  was a GM subsidiary?

[rcdrye]

LFM was a key GM supplier (think Blomberg trucks) but wasn't owned by GM.  Bought by Rockwell in 1958, its successors are still very much in the railway and transit supply industry.