CFR Preperation area

[casey jones snr]

]This is the CFR preperation area. All locomotives should be oiled, gassed up, watered and generally checked over.

 

[casey jones snr]

>:Some one (No names, No pack drill) failed to check this locomotive (EUROPA).
A bolt fell out during operations.

 

[Bram]

what a great set up

 

[Rhinochugger]

Love the name

'Balham'....... gateway to the south!!

who remembers 'Beyond the Fringe'?

 

[casey jones snr]

Balham has recently had a complete overall at Roundhouse Engineering. It now runs so smoothly.
The steam up area is attached at waist and chest height to the front of the control cabin. Locomotive boxes are stored underneath. Gas is kept in a seperate steel container and is stored in a seperate shed.

 

[minimans]

I love that Loco Balham! I was born in Balham in 57 we used to live in a wartime Pre-fab. we had a huge bomb site next door where an ariel mine had hit and left a huge crater full of the rubble and contents of the houses that used to be there! Ah! the memory's

 

[casey jones snr]

I love that Loco Balham! I was born in Balham in 57 we used to live in a wartime Pre-fab. we had a huge bomb site next door where an ariel mine had hit and left a huge crater full of the rubble and contents of the houses that used to be there! Ah! the memory's

Paul, If it was still there it would have to have a blue plaque on it "The birth place of Minimans".

 

[Doug]

Balham has recently had a complete overall at Roundhouse Engineering. It now runs so smoothly.
The steam up area is attached at waist and chest height to the front of the control cabin. Locomotive boxes are stored underneath. Gas is kept in a seperate steel container and is stored in a seperate shed.

Just make sure the steel container and shed have ventilation at the bottom. Gas is heavier than air, so sinks. It needs to get out of the bottom of any container it is stored in, to avoid build-up of gas.

 

[casey jones snr]

Balham has recently had a complete overall at Roundhouse Engineering. It now runs so smoothly.
The steam up area is attached at waist and chest height to the front of the control cabin. Locomotive boxes are stored underneath. Gas is kept in a seperate steel container and is stored in a seperate shed.

Just make sure the steel container and shed have ventilation at the bottom. Gas is heavier than air, so sinks. It needs to get out of the bottom of any container it is stored in, to avoid build-up of gas.

A point well made Doug. Both container and shed are well ventilated. I learnt the lesson of gases heavier than air many years ago when a friend of mine had a steam up well because all his track was at ground level. On one steam up he dropped a still lit taper into the bottom of the well, there was a bright flash and an heavy whoomp, gas ignited, lesson learnt.

 

[minimans]

Not for the Canary though....................................................

 

[dunnyrail]

Balham has recently had a complete overall at Roundhouse Engineering. It now runs so smoothly.
The steam up area is attached at waist and chest height to the front of the control cabin. Locomotive boxes are stored underneath. Gas is kept in a seperate steel container and is stored in a seperate shed.

Just make sure the steel container and shed have ventilation at the bottom. Gas is heavier than air, so sinks. It needs to get out of the bottom of any container it is stored in, to avoid build-up of gas.

A point well made Doug. Both container and shed are well ventilated. I learnt the lesson of gases heavier than air many years ago when a friend of mine had a steam up well because all his track was at ground level. On one steam up he dropped a still lit taper into the bottom of the well, there was a bright flash and an heavy whoomp, gas ignited, lesson learnt.

You cant beat a good old whoomp to singe the hairs of your back of your hands.
JonD

 

[casey jones snr]

Europa, Balham and Willi on the preperation road.

The preperation area has had a new lick of paint.