steamman
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- May 26, 2020
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- Columbus, Ga
Locomotive wheels are very expensive to make and maybe impossible to replace. Yet steel on steel wears them down. So what to do? Use steel rims called tires. They wear instead of the wheel. Replacing them is an interesting operation.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsac.1a34708/
A brief youtube.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsac.1a34708/
Retiring a locomotive driver wheel in the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railway locomotive shops, Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in place. Santa Fe R.R.
A brief youtube.