Sorry folks. I was trying to post a video of a steam engine being built in the 1930s but I lost the link and I can't find it.
Edit:
maxman was kind enough to dig it out for me. Scroll down.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
This one?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRsYIiUxZeQ
I came across that film about six months ago. Very informative and enlightening!
I love the scene in the forge where the men are counterbalancing the boiler throat plate in the furnace at 5:18 .
Can you imagine the job description!
Dead weight wanted. Nice sit-down position. Toasty work environment. Room for advancement.
Ed
maxman!
That's the one!
Thanks
Wow. No safety goggles or hardhats!
Heck Southgate, they were just using rags to handle white hot rods and castings and that was peanuts compared to the real risks. How about the insulating panels that went into the boiler walls. Do you think just maybe that there was a bit of asbestos in there!? How about the guys who were cleaning the sand off of the castings? No breathing masks. Little did they know, but while you are enjoying the nostalgic scenes, remember that many of those men died early deaths.
Southgate Wow. No safety goggles or hardhats!
Having worked in industrial invironments a good portion of my life, I can tell you that in many cases, too much "safety" gear makes work more dangerous, not safer.
Sure, safety goggles are important at times, but try wearing them with a hard hat and actually doing any "work".
All the safety gear in the world will never replace common sense.........
Sheldon
hon30critter Heck Southgate, they were just using rags to handle white hot rods and castings and that was peanuts compared to the real risks. How about the insulating panels that went into the boiler walls. Do you think just maybe that there was a bit of asbestos in there!? How about the guys who were cleaning the sand off of the castings? No breathing masks. Little did they know, but while you are enjoying the nostalgic scenes, remember that many of those men died early deaths. Dave
Yes, the hazards of breathing the air where way higher than the physical hazards that a hard hat or goggles would protect you from.........try wearing a resporator with goggles and a hard hat.........I'll take a full face resporator and skip the hard hat.
ATLANTIC CENTRALAll the safety gear in the world will never replace common sense
Mike
Sheldon:
I had to wear a respirator for several hours a few years ago while we were cleaning the bat poop out of our cottage attic. It was horrible. I could hardly breath. I can't imagine having to wear one for a living.
hon30critter Sorry folks. I was trying to post a video of a steam engine being built in the 1930s but I lost the link and I can't find it.
Rich
Alton Junction
Rich:
Yes, I did feel like a dummy! Not to worry, maxman saved my butt.
Interesting setup on the cylinders. Two on each outside the frames and two more sets between the frames driving a crank on the axle.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
G Paine Interesting setup on the cylinders. Two on each outside the frames and two more sets between the frames driving a crank on the axle.
Actually a cylinder and a valve chamber on each side, cast together. She's a four cylinder compound, HP cylinders inboard, LP cylinders outboard. Common east of the Atlantic, totally unknown in North America.
IIRC, the first hard hats were home-brewed by the folks building the Boulder (then, Hoover now) Dam. Take two baseball caps and some asphalt... That was just about the time the film was being made.
The Hoover Dam builders needed hard hats. Imagine being hit by a one inch diameter pebble that's just fallen 750 feet or so... Of course, they didn't help much for large chunks, or falling bodies. The high-scalers earned their extra pay.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)