Diesel Service Report, October 6th, 2021 ATSF 5704 EMD SD45-2 After a long period of behind the scenes work by a lot of people, it has now been announced that…
Diesel Service Report, September 25th, 2021 SF560 Fairbanks Morse H12-44 Restoration Project Richard Berk and John Salvini have finished installing the exhaust manifolds. During that process, they noticed corrosion pitting…
Diesel Service Report, September 4th, 2021 SF560 Fairbanks Morse H12-44 Restoration Project Previously, both exhaust manifolds had been removed due to leaking water jackets. They were repaired and are now…
Diesel Service Report, August 28th, 2021 SF560 Fairbanks Morse H12-44 Restoration Project The metal work for the restoration project has been underway for a few weeks. Carl Pickus has fabricated…
Diesel Service Report, August 7th, 2021 SF560 Fairbanks Morse H12-44 Restoration Project Work continues installing the front and rear foot-boards. While working in the scrap yard in Texas, the foot-boards…
Diesel Service Report, July 31st, 2021 Fairbanks Morse Restoration Project When the locomotive was shipped to the museum from Texas in the mid 1980’s, pictures verify that the front foot-boards…
Diesel Service Report, July 3rd, 2021 UP942 John Salvini and Richard Berk continued to use the newly built load bank to test the Diesel engines up UP942. The rear engine…
Diesel Service Report, June 7th, 2021 Fairbanks Morse Santa Fe SF560 Restoration Work has been progressing on SF560 and has been focusing on the exhaust manifold issues for the past…
Diesel Service Report, April 17th, 2021 Fairbanks Morse Santa Fe SF560 Restoration As noted previously, one exhaust manifold has serious condition problems. Corrosion has resulted in numerous holes that leak…
Diesel Service Report, April 3rd, 2021 A few weeks ago, John Salvini was selected to receive the yearly President’s award. For those of us that know and work with John,…