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Author Topic: Restoring the Waterworks Engine in Woburn Massachusetts  (Read 1457 times)

A. E. Karnes

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Re: Restoring the Waterworks Engine in Woburn Massachusetts
« on: April 05, 2019, 04:13:32 pm »
@ Swift Fox 

This engine is a compound only, HP/LP cylinders.  The dimensions of it are 18 inch HP bore, 36 inch LP bore, 36 inch stroke.   3.5 stories from base plate to top of cylinders, what I would call a small engine.

The same friends and I also restored a triple in Phillipsburg New Jersey from a heavily damaged state.  That one is 24 x 36 x 56 with a 36 inch stroke, and stands 6 floors tall.  What I would call a medium sized engine.  After a year of intensive and back breaking restoration we got it steaming July of last year.  We needed to make most of the valve gear new pieces due to most of it being shattered. [ Guests cannot view attachments ]