Milwaukee Road #265, Possible Restoration

Howard P. · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:25 am

"...triplication uncouthness..."

I'm grabbing that one for my own use! Excellent!

Howard P.
Monkeys & Typewriters, NY

dinwitty · **Joined:** Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:18 pm **Posts:** 2226

ooohh... (slaps head)

marketing...

(steam website)

Build a restaurant and slap some goodies on the wall (Applebees)

rlsteam · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:14 pm

Oddly enough, just this morning I came across this postcard in a local antique shop. It shows MILW 265 on display in Milwaukee in 1957.

Bobharbison · **Joined:** Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:42 pm **Posts:** 3011

Nice display, informative sign, good track under her, nice fence, decent paint, tender full to the brim with coal... D'oh!

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Sat Jan 12, 2013 8:25 pm

Pet peeve: Calling a modern 4-8-4 "Old Smokey" or "Puffing Billy", or the like.

NW Class J · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:33 am

I can't personally see this happening. The 265 has been such a long time resident at the IRM. Also didn't the Friends of the 261 group swap out some parts off the 265 for the 261?

Jdelhaye · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2013 10:16 am

NW Class J wrote:

I can't personally see this happening. The 265 has been such a long time resident at the IRM. Also didn't the Friends of the 261 group swap out some parts off the 265 for the 261?

Parts were borrowed, and have since been returned.

Jeff

NW Class J · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2013 3:31 pm

Ok, I didn't realize they had been returned.

joe6167 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 13, 2013 3:56 pm

How long was the tender left filled with coal, and how much is left of the coal bunker sheets today?

J.David · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2013 12:16 pm

Greetings:
The tender wasn't full of coal. There was falsework at the top of the bunker with some coal on top. It actually did a pretty good job protecting the bunker.
Many of the "missing" parts from the locomotive had actually been removed by the Parks Department after the theft refered to in the newspaper artical linked to earlier in this thread. Everything was turned over to us when we got the locomotive.
The major missing components were valves from the No.8ET brake system. Luckily, the Milwaukee Road "Little Joe" electrics were equipped with No.8. We obtained the parts we needed from their shops.
Although not missing, the tender trucks were unuseable (old roller bearing axles with wooden blocks stuck in as bearings). Luckily, Nick Kallas was driving by Pielet Brothers and noticed an S-3 tender in their yard for scrapping. We made a deal to swap them the trucks from 265's tender for the trucks from theirs (off No. 269).
The biggest issue with the swap was uncoupling the engine from the tender, but that is a story for another time...
J.David

joe6167 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2013 12:31 pm

J.David,

I've had the pleasure of being involved in the spliting of two Northerns and their tenders. Say no more!

Joe

dinwitty · **Joined:** Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:18 pm **Posts:** 2226

haha yep, 765 was no different. All the running kept rust knocked off, but I don't think any railroad figured the pin needed regular lubing.
765 took a hydraulic power lift, after previous hand jacks and air hammers wouldnt budge it.

filmteknik · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2013 1:24 am

Pielet was still cutting up big steam in 1975? Sadness...

Steve

Alexander D. Mitchell IV · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:35 am

filmteknik wrote:

Pielet was still cutting up big steam in 1975? Sadness...

Pielet MAY have been scrapping big steam TENDERS. Big difference.

Heck, there was a scrapyard in Shiremanstown, Pa. that had one or two UP "Big Blow" Centipede tenders for years. I think UP finally came and got them back for the steam program; they're not there now, at any rate.

whodom · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:35 am

filmteknik wrote:

Pielet was still cutting up big steam in 1975? Sadness...

Steve

Two N&W Y6b's were scrapped in Roanoke about this time. It's crazy at least one of those didn't get saved.