Georgia State Railroad Museum Part 2

[@jefftaylor7511]

For those of us who can no longer travel these videos provide wonderful viewing of things I'd otherwise never get to see. Thank you Adam, I really appreciate the effort you make to bring the videos to us. God Bless.

[@paulwhited117]

That women of yours is a keeper. What a personality. “Sorry I don’t know. Will you still marry me?” I enjoy your videos with the both of you on trips also. Thanks Adam.

[@andyZ3500s]

Abby is what you call the better half.

[@musarudy4259]

pro tip : watch series on Flixzone. I've been using them for watching loads of movies recently.

[@kameronlandyn3997]

@Musa Rudy Yea, I have been watching on Flixzone} for years myself :D

[@vern6389]

Thanks Adam. I was watching some older videos and you have lost a lot of weight. In the past I struggled with weight loss too. You seem happier and more self confident. Thank you again for all the great videos.

[@ivansemanco6976]

Adam inspire me to do something with my weight, very nice guy. I made some very slow progress but it works and I feel much better. Thanks Adam for great videos.

[@JunkMikesWorld]

I loved it! Very cool seeing Keith geek out on those old Crescent machines and the winch as well.

[@kevinriese6384]

listing to the four of you converse was almost as great as the machines them self. in regards to the machines it brings me to tears realizing the craftsmanship,talent,knowledge and experience we have lost here in the us. thank you and god bless.

[@piperjohn_3]

You and Keith are the perfect tour guides for this place. That was just awesome.

[@thepotterer3726]

Agreed, I made a similar comment in the other one.

[@davemackinnon6487]

You guys geeking out over the shapers was the absolute best part! Love it, love it, love it!

[@edwardcook9957]

You Guys had way too much fun. Thanks for taking us on your trip. Very good.

[@DrunkenBobDole]

You are 100% right about that 4 jaw chuck. Each jaw can move independently but also all sit on a scroll place. We have one on our 4th axis mill, it’s very handy for setting a part to run true while staying repeatable and operator friendly.

[@davekimbler2308]

Don’t ya just love the smell of old machinery? I go to every museum I come across in my travels.

[@dougborrett3566]

That W Class tram, (Streetcar) @29:40 came from my home town Melbourne Australia We are still using a few of them doing free City Sight Tours where you get off and on where ever you like.

[@Mishn0]

I saw a donkey engine in a logging museum in the northwest woods. They used to move them by hooking the cable to a tree in the direction they wanted to go and then just winch it there. The base was built sort of like a sled. When they got it where they were going, they'd stake it down and get about their work winching logs.

[@garysmith4311]

Adam thanks for taking us along.. I enjoyed the video very much. Being in the scale industry for some fifty years I can tell you the weights you were looking at are used as standards to calibrate scales. They caught my eye instantly. Thanks again for sharing.

[@Abom79]

Gary Smith awesome. Thanks!

[@frankmcgorman962]

Just like kids in a toy shop ... :) You are pronouncing Worcester the way that my English cousins pronounce it. They're from the neighbourhood of the city of Worcester in England, so I'd say you're spot on. Cheers, and thanks for taking us along on the tour.

[@garyc5483]

Yes that is the way to say it. regards from the UK

[@bigdawgsbusa2]

Love it like some kids in a candy store we never get to old when it's in your blood you lite up with enjoyment great video Adam

[@G-Man-kc2nm]

Wow...if they could only talk.....The trains..The walls...The Equipment...I can see the men working hard in the old days...Proud of what they did, driven by passion......Every man represented the good old America....I miss the old days...Thanks for taking us along on a great journey through history.

[@bcbloc02]

Loved the tour! So much good iron there just sitting but it would take tons of hours and money to bring it all back to operational and keep it that way.

[@Abom79]

We’ve talked to them about possibly helping them with doing son restorations with them for display for the museum.

[@thepotterer3726]

@@Abom79 They wont have to watch too many of your videos to know they'll be in good hands, thanks for the tour.

[@monadking2761]

Thanks for the tour. I love those old machines too. If up north, stop in and check out the Edison Museum. It's loaded with belt driven machines still belted to the ceiling pulleys and it has one electric drive motor hooked up to all the shafts. It is worth the trip.

[@paulkelly1702]

Super cool to see the old machinery that was the genesis of what we use today. Thank you for sharing your trip.

[@paulatkins894]

Thanks, guys! No such as too much information.

[@shockwavecity]

As a newenglander who has lived in it, it's "wuhstah" we drop the R off the end.

[@bcool6801]

Cool stuff😍 , thanks for taking us along Adam

[@charlescompton4495]

What a group and what a tour. Thanks to Abbie (sorry if I goofed on spelling) for her photography, too! Greg

[@lemagreengreen]

Great to see some old woodworking machines too!

[@robertmalis4493]

Adam I really love your video but these two just wow I really love seeing these old Machines

[@haydenc2742]

Like kids in a candy store..LOL Such cool old school hardware and machines!

[@mustafadewalt5679]

I wish I were with you to smell the beautiful machines Thank you for this beautiful video blessed your hands

[@waynep343]

adam build your shop crane with your pallet jack as a slip on feature.. just drive the pallet jack right into the shop crane base and hoist away.. have the curved webs water jet cut so you can weld on the top and bottom flange.. if you have them water jet cut some Abom79 lettering out of smaller thinner stock you can tack weld that to the sides of the web or plug weld it on so it looks like a ABOM 1879 shop crane. since you put your lathes up on feet it should work great.. only had half an inch to the top of the height of the pallet jack forks..

[@castnetman]

That was perfect timing. The landscape guys finished up the same time ya'll did. Great videos

[@danf6070]

I have a 4 jaw scroll chuck that also has independent jaw control. It's a Skinner chuck. The patent is from the 1870's I believe so it's a really old design. Mine still works excellently despite being over 100 years old.

[@richardy7335]

Thank you Adam. I enjoyed the tour and the camaraderie and Abby great pictures.

[@isabellaman2545]

That was great Adam. Thank u. Made it even more fantastic with the five of u together

[@yo64yo]

damn, that's awesome. it's amazing when you think about just how much machining goes into making a train. The industry probably wouldn't be the same if it weren't for railways, amazing content as always thank you so much for showing us the museum and thank you for teaching everyone so much about manufacturing!

[@btrswt35]

All of that stuff is cool but those two cranes are the coolest!

[@pilgrimm23]

Adam.. Gawd I wish I could have been there...taking notes. You, Kieth ....such KNOWLEDGE on display related to our heritage and, to ....what young bucks.... NEED TO...know

[@josephdestaubin7426]

I've built dozens of those windows with the counterweight sash. That one machine would have been handy

[@jamesbrewer3020]

Thank you very much for that tour Adam . Very interesting to see all great old machinery.

[@steveweidner8311]

Great video. Been about 10-15 years since I visited there. looks like they have added a lot more items.

[@shawnmrfixitlee6478]

WOW, I had a great time Adam & Abby .. I so ENJOYED ! .. Thanks ..

[@tttco]

I love that radial arm drill press! Ever since I got my own radial arm drill press I seem to be fascinated by them LOL

[@428eliminator3]

Tommy the "Spite Mower" has moved from Streator Illinois to Georgia.

[@metricstormtrooper]

First thing I thought about this video was "Someone should take that chuck key out of that chuck" my metalwork teacher drove that into us in High school, and 40 years later, its still there.

[@swanvalleymachineshop]

Always a lot of machines you don't see now days in rail w/shops . Railway machine shop is where i started my trade .

[@63256325N]

Thanks for the tour.

[@TgWags69]

Thanks to Abby for the still photos. Very nice job. Night and day difference from the video cameras

[@dananelson5434]

Thanks for posting. Had a good time watching. Now you know what you can get Keith, a steam engine. Lots of great old machines. April has one of those cranes. I was surprised, have never seen one. That's some casting. See you in the next one.

[@railfan439]

Adam, a lot of the electric motor wiring on some of those old machines has the old cloth wrapped and tarred wiring, A definite no-no today. That cart you were looking at could double as a chaise lounge on your patio. Great to see Mike Wiggins out and about. See you all at the Bar-Z. Jon

[@nitramretep]

Great tour, thanks.

[@wisemansaysnotmuch5359]

Two Very nice videos Adam, 4 x thumbs up Thank all

[@kylesscootershop]

Thanks yall. My wife went to scad and we still have home there

[@cschwad559]

I’m glad I bought my 24 inch G&E last year!

[@TheAyrCaveShop]

Amazing Piece of Industrial History ! There's so much there, it's hard to think of what to comment on. Could spend a week there easy. Much thanks for bringing us along. Easy to see you guys were having a great time! LOL...The mowing man followed you right to the end...

[@grahamsengineering.2532]

Beautiful videos guys. The Vari Drive on that shaper is really something. Thanks for sharing Adam and Keith.

[@IBWatchinUrVids]

Some day soon, people will be standing around the machines we use today, shining flashlights on them, dreaming of how cool they were. . . .. I hope.

[@royreynolds108]

The jacks at 3:52 look to be house or car jacks as they have two round holes for the handle. They have to be walked down to lower. Track jacks are similar but have a square hole for a lining bar to operate and can be tripped or "shot" to lower and have a larger base of about twice the size to operate on the ground or in ballast.

[@paulk8152]

9 years ago I was there at the museum .....I met my better half downtown at a bar called “the Rail”.....

[@johnstrange6799]

Great time. Thank you.

[@andyZ3500s]

Bison still makes a combination lathe chuck Independent and scroll. I think they were used for repetitive offset work. Did any body notice the horizontal mill without a knee, you moved the arbor. The place is incredible!

[@southern207hobbies]

Those jacks are for leveling the track but they can be used to jack a car back on track in case of a minor derailment

[@greathodgy22]

Those weights would have been from a railroad scale test car. All railroads used to have one or two people that went around and tested the RR scales and fixed and certified them. When I worked for CP we had one man with two scale test cars that went system wide to do the testing. Sometimes you needed the extra weights to load one end of the scale to do the testing.

[@Mishn0]

We had weights like that to calibrate the scales in a place where I worked. We had to check them once per shift. We were weighing "controlled substances" and the amount of finished product and waste had to measure *very* close to the input raw material or the government would ask questions.

[@Simonsimps]

The windows are called sash windows and that was great to see that machine that carves the grooves for the sisal rope. I replaces some sash windows 2 weeks ago with the uPVC equivalent and wondered if those grooves were cast into the weights. Now I know. Thanks

[@davidrichards5594]

Excellent tour, like being there. I take one of each.....Dave

[@jlucasound]

A lot of cool old machine tools. Didn't expect that in a Railroad Museum! Thanks for takin' us along, Adam! I was born in Bridgeport and grew up in New Haven County. My Daughter and Granddaughter live in Worcester! (Pronounced "Wuss-ter"; you know, like as in "that kid is such a wuss!"). :-)

[@NoelBarlau]

Oh man, I'd have loved to come along on that tour. Looks like the best dreams I've had of "barn finds". And that CVT on the shaper - just wow.

[@jdgower1]

Thanks for the chuck key dealio. I probably should've waited til I saw this video before I posted that tome about it in the first one. Also, thanks for the videos - I love nerding out on old stuff like that.

[@BobOBob]

In college in the 70s, I knew someone from that Boston family, and she said it "wuh stuh"

[@Bryan-sm1bx]

Love Savannah! We were at the rail museum last year. Definitely a cool place. There is a huge amount of history there. Nice video as always Adam.

[@frednewman2162]

Those weights were used for elevator load testing. Ottis used them all the time, not sure if they were made for them or they were adapted to that use and they had some other purpose!

[@gottfriedschuss5999]

These weights were also used to certify scales, e.g., certified truck scales, grain elevator scales, etc. These look like 100-pound test weights. Although they look somewhat crude, test weights like this can be NIST traceable and a representative accuracy is one part in 10,000 (a class-F certified weight).

[@FredMiller]

Over the top tour!

[@MBR-and-R]

That badge on the drill was really cool , dont see that nowadays , And those shop cranes are cool , i know April Wilkerson picked one up of blacksmithtools not long ago , he maybe the guy to ask if your after one :)

[@TheH3RB1E]

I don't know what series or age that Bridgeport is but we have three near identical ones where I work (modern toolmaking/mouldmaking shop) even down to the motor housing on top, ours were rebuilt in 1990 (according to the plates on the side). I see so many with the variable speed motors but ours are just like that, single speed motor with a belt drive to get you your various speeds.

[@p3th3t1c]

I couldn't help but notice the rail car with the orange blossom special written on it

[@adambaker5729]

That is a very impressive museum, I will definitely have to check it out if I'm in Savannah!

[@brianevans1946]

That chuck key was bugging me from the 1st video already...

[@waynep343]

A worker at the engine rebuilding shop I worked at always left the chuck key in the chuck. I would walk over and it in the jaws and snug the jaws down with my torque wrench from my head rebuilding department. He quit leaving it in the chuck .

[@av8ordavvee]

The Wright Brothers had a 14 inch Putnam lathe. It’s in Greenfield Village now.

[@ddcd53]

Great video. Love to see all those antique machines. It's a shame they are all rotting away. What was so secretive about the machines you could not video? Thanks for sharing with us. Dan

[@BravoCharleses]

Keith needs to work up a trade between the two museums and get that winch for his museum!

[@yqwgjsg]

Could you imagine the covers and warning stickers that would be all over those machines if they tried to build some of them today? All those exposed gears and such. How did the species survive without government safety organizations? Of course in my day I used to stand next to my dad as he drove the car and I had to learn the hard way that a stove was hot.

[@MRichK]

Yeah there would be a lot more people without fingers and hands and arms and dead. My mother used to work as a nurse in a hospital near a lot of machine shops back in the day, and she had plenty of horror stories. I'll take all the covers and warning stickers over that.

[@evanpenny348]

Yep: first thing I noticed was the chuck key in the chuck. Glad you removed it before someone got hurt or smashed something.

[@Soggstermainia]

You should ask if they would let you take one of the jib cranes to restore it for them as a project series!

[@thenuffnuff]

really cool stuff, thanks for showing us Adam

[@dylansawyer9314]

I’ve got a 4 jaw scroll chuck with independent jaws that I don’t use... you can have it if you want... it’s a L2 mount

[@michaelkenefick]

So Mr. Pete's spite mower moved to Florida? =)

[@donpollard9460]

You NEVER leave the chuck key in the chuck - I see that you picked that up ... !

[@FearsomeWarrior]

Great stuff. Curious why they didn't want the secret warehouse filmed. Security, safety, or perhaps it's because they have so much people will assume it could be for sale. None of our business but interesting.

[@binderstem31]

Cool shop and warehouse. I cracked up when you removed the key from the chuck on the Monarch. I noticed it in the first video. Was hoping somebody would do it.That would have angered my old shop teacher if he saw that. Drove it into our thick heads never to do that.

[@greggoff4990]

Abby needs her own channel.

[@ohhpaul7364]

Wistah! or at least that was what a friend emphatically expressed to me every time we drove through there. To be honest, the only thing I could see of the town really, as you drive along either 91 or 93(I cant remember), is a giant old smoke stack that may have belonged to one of these factories that made the stuff y'all enjoy seeing so much.

[@mitchs323]

That last crane looked like a Burrow crane, used to be common for track crews and lineside maintenance, although that one looks like it's older than any I've seen.

[@terryfromsouthcarolina4601]

I know where a Ponds 18 foot planer is. We used to make wire tracks and wire tables for carpet weaving looms with it. Good running old machine , line shaft driven by an electric motor. Twisted leather flat belt for reverse. It's still owned by the carpet company I worked for just at another plant. I don't know if they would part with it.

[@garrettmay6537]

Awesome. I love old iron.

[@AMRosa10]

Watching this video, I couldn't help but think about the fact that there was a last time that these machines were operated. There was a last cut that they made. Their operator probably brushed off the chips, wiped the machine down, and turned it off. Did the operator know that it would be the last cut that machine would take? How did they feel? Was it because the machine was replaced with something newer, faster, better, safer? Was the shop closed down? Did the operator retire or pass on? Each of those machines has a history, has a story that they could tell, of parts made, of jobs completed. What were those parts for? How did they affect the lives of countless people than never knew that those machines were behind some aspect of their everyday life. It is sad to see them silent, dust covered and cobwebbed, waiting to be brought back to life to make the next cut, to finish the next part, to keep the engines of modern life running.

[@websitesthatneedanem]

29:33 - man! Look at the weight you've lost! - WELL DONE that man! 👍👍👍👍

[@lukerickert5203]

4 jaw scroll chucks with independently adjustable jaws are not uncommon in Europe. I have a nice little Rohm EG I use on my Schaublin 102. They do tend to be a bit expensive and for lighter work but are nice to use.

[@paulmanson253]

At about the 5 minute mark, there was that turquoise roll cabinet you just walked right past. Never looked in the drawers. I do not think I could have done that. Then about 7 min. Holy crow.

[@billoxley5315]

Gotta love that old iron!

[@AnthonyCurreri]

Wonderful. Thanks again

[@manga12]

the vtl or vertical turret lath is also called a vertical boaring mill and many of them were larger

[@bcbloc02]

I believe in order for it to truly be a vertical boring mill it has to have a powered spindle as well as the powered table.

[@russ533mj]

Keith needs his own segment on this one!

[@frankdeegan8974]

The portable shop crane looks like a pallet jack with a boom and a winch.lol