I'll bet TrainWire's "tires" are not exactly "Indy 500" steel-belted radials.

Tree stumps may not be the first choice in wheel chocks.

Wearing surgical gloves here to keep your hands sanitary is probably a bad idea.

  :-) :-) :-)

I would expect the inside diameter to shrink during heating as the metal expands, aggravating the problem...

I would expect that cyrogenics would be a better idea causing the metal to shrink, but what do I know!!!

Heck, I assumed wheel and tire were one solid piece, replacing the whole works and smeld it down for another...



Neat stuff... I'm always learning here!

Oh, someone has to say it:

Is that a "HotWheel"?



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I also always thought that train wheels were one solid slab of iron....at least that's what the subway car wheels here in New York are like.

Are the wheels and axle integral or can that also be taken apart?

Talk about heavy metal

sven nyc:
i used to work on railroad before and for wheels and axle on trains are one piece look like over size auto axle but they are pretty hevey piece of metel but all the locomotvie wheel are little diffrent set up they will have large steel disc then the "ring " go on to make the final machine work it is common pratice with the steam locomotive by heating large ring then drop on the wheel to cool off then machine it to proper shape and make it true circle myself i know pretty well about locos i rebuilt few of them engines ; traction motours ; electral area and few other items as need

p.s. scott 35 also a rail fan here he know quite a bit of loco's

merci marc

TW,
If you keep this up, you're are going to have to change your screen-name to TRAINFIRE !!

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TrainWire — The local gas company or acetylene supplier must love you guys!

I love the rubber flex gas line attached to that Tee laying under that 400 degree ball of fire, i guess OSHA doesn't poke their noses in your business too much? lol

looks pretty damn cool

Sorry i'm a freaking moron, thats not a gas line at all. (shoves foot in mouth, down throat and god knows where and keep shoving it, oh wait now i'm diggin a hole)

Sven: Our Loco's wheels and axles are two seperate pieces. We have a 600 ton press to take them apart and put them together. The axles are steel, while the wheels are cast iron. We had to have one made when we restored our N&W #475. The pattern for the casting cost 2 1/2 times the casting itself.

The local welding supply house shows up once a week with a fresh batch of cylinders. The process in the picture uses propane, the hoses in the picture are not as close as they look. One is a gas hose, much the same as the fire resistant one on a torch set, and the other is an air hose. You turn the gas on all the way, then wind the air in till you get a nice flame. The torches in the previous (now famous) picure, uses oxygen, this getup just uses shop air, as we are not looking for as hot a flame. These are relativly small wheels for a climax logging engine that we are doing for someone else. Some tires can be 80 inches across.

TW

We do our best to comply with all OSHA regs, and have an excellent saftey record. Wejust do a lot of stuff that's big heavy and hot.