If “bake a cake” is old railroad slang for building up steam in a locomotive, then you could say that the restoration crew at the Northwest Railway Museum has been…
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In September 2015 another major milestone was passed in the rehabilitation to service of Northern Pacific Railway steam locomotive 924. In November 2014, the boiler tubes were removed from the…
The Museum’s curator cuts out around the stay bolts that secure the inside sheet to the outside sheet. During operation, water between the sheets is heated by combustion in the…
