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richarddurgee
Senior Member
Username: richarddurgee
Post Number: 4108
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2018 - 04:42 pm: | 
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Big Steam 1919
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jim_parrott
Senior Member
Username: jim_parrott
Post Number: 173
Registered: 06-2009
| | Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 08:37 am: |
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Wow! That's BIG, would love to see one of those in action. |
drrot
Senior Member
Username: drrot
Post Number: 236
Registered: 09-2008
| | Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 09:26 am: |
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Not quite as big but this has been sitting on the side of US2 in the UP for a while. They said it came from an old ferry boat
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ernie
Senior Member
Username: ernie
Post Number: 2447
Registered: 01-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2018 - 02:13 pm: |
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Here is a big one at Mystic. I would guess it is almost 15 feet or more to the top.
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jb_castagnos
Senior Member
Username: jb_castagnos
Post Number: 1361
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2018 - 10:19 pm: |
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That was quite an operation to produce 4 of these engines in a week, must have had multiple huge machines. |
modhydro
Senior Member
Username: modhydro
Post Number: 61
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 10:23 am: |
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Here are a few from inside the Keewatin before it got towed back to Canada for a full restoration.
When I was a kid we'd take the tour through the ship when in Saugatuck Michigan. One time my dad asked if we could get down in the engine room rather than just look at it through the skylights. After some pleading and begging we got a "special" tour. Across from the pursers office one of the raised panel parts of the wall hid a door that led past the coal bunkers and to a vertical staircase to the engine room. I was amazed at the size of the whole thing.
Fast forward 30 or so years later and I heard that the rail company that owned the ship originally was taking it home to Canada to restore. I was able to get ahold of the guy who saved it from the scrappers in 1965 and got back in to see it all once more. I don't remember the exact dimensions, but I think end bearing to end bearing of the crankshaft was somewhere in the neighborhood of 24 feet. It was around 20 feet tall as well. It is a quadruple expansion with the low pressure cylinder having a 6' bore. Kind of strange to list bore in feet....
Here are a few photos. Being crammed into the hull, it wasn't easy to get photos that show the whole thing. My Dad is 6'2" for perspective.
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bruce
Senior Member
Username: bruce
Post Number: 640
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 - 05:33 pm: |
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Great pictures Steve! Thanks For sharing !! I recall seeing it at Saugatuck. You might mention the ship is open for tours mid May to early October at Port Mc Nicoll, Ontario
Google SS Keewatin for more pictures and details |
miro
Senior Member
Username: miro
Post Number: 962
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 29, 2018 - 08:25 am: |
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Port McNichol is within about a 45 minute drive of the Muskoka area so if anyone is going on the ACBS Spring Boat Shop Tour on April 28 , you might swing by.
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