Diesel Service Report, July 19, 2023 USAF 1601 Starting last year, a slow water leak was noted on the number two engine. It kept getting worse until finally the radiator…
Diesel Service Report, May 28, 2023 ATSF Fairbanks Morse H12-44 SF560 Restoration Restoring any piece of equipment entails studying its history and trying to understand how its present configuration came…
Diesel Service Report, May 21, 2023 ATSF Fairbanks Morse H12-44 SF560 Restoration The two major tasks remaining before painting the locomotive are to restore the cab and engine compartment. The…
Diesel Service Report, April 19, 2023 ATSF Fairbanks Morse H12-44 SF560 Restoration (as built after Sept 1956) The work to restore the cab is underway. Corey Wylde and volunteers working…
Diesel Service Report, March 15, 2023 ATSF Fairbanks Morse H12-44 SF560 Restoration For the past few months we have focused on hard starting issues. Of course its a Diesel engine…
Diesel Service Report, January 25, 2023 SF108 Our EMD FP45 is obviously the favorite Run One locomotive at the museum. It seems to be booked about once a month or…
Diesel Service Report, December 18, 2022 SP1006 EMC 1939 SW1 SP1006 came to the museum in the late 1980’s. Shortly after its arrival its restoration project began. When we started…
Diesel Service Report, November 20, 2022 Ray Ballash Ray Ballash passed away this past Friday. For those of us that knew him, he was a gentle soul that offered to…
Diesel Service Report, November 15, 2022 Day Out with Thomas SP1006 and SF108 were used for five days pulling the Thomas the Tank Engine and Thomas’s sidekick locomotive, Percy. SF108…
Diesel Service Report, October 2, 2022 RunOne Program Our RunOne program at the museum continues to have excellent results. SF108 appears to be the favorite of Railfans wanting to operate…