Mill Creek Run 08

I finally located the rest of the video from the Mill Creek run....enjoy!

This is the tressel which I am about to go over. Shortly after crossing, the transmission siezed up. It was determined that it seized because I did not use Oil Lite bearings in the gearbox and eventhough I kept the spindles well oiled, the increased pressure from the climb to the tressel wrung out all lubrication and galled the forward gear to the spindle causing the transmission to lock up.
The train trailing me up to and across the tressel came to my rescue. Once my transmission locked up and I realized that even putting the trany into neutral was not going to allow me to freewheel in any direction, I dumped the fire. Then we rearranged some logs and loaded my engine and riding car onto the logging train which had followed me.


This is part B of the same event.










This is Nelson with his original design Shay.
Oil fired and running just a tad rich.
Somewhere in all these videos you can find one of Nelson's Shay blowing smoke rings on a relight.