Grapevine Vintage RR (GVRR 2248) steam returns! 10/31/2010 ©

Grapevine Vintage Railroad steam engine 4-6-0, ex-SP returns to service on the FWWR tracks for the Halloween 1pm departure to Ft. Worth and the stockyards. Upon arrival, the crew do an inspection on the once busted and recently repaired cylinder to find the same catastrophe has happened again on the same cylinder. Rumor has it, the first time, an excess amount of water got into the cylinder which would not compress the same as steam, therefore busting the housing back pressure plate. Today, who knows? The plate broke again in 7 places as evident by the cracks shown at the end of the video. GVRR 2199, the GP7 diesel was taken from the rear of the train and turned on the turntable at the stockyards which then returned the train (w/o steam) to the Grapevine depot/shops. Tags: Railfanning NS UP KCS CSX CN CP BNSF FXE AMTRAK SP WP CNW E8A 40-2 Metrolink Metra EJ&E SD38-2 Sw1500 MP15AC MP15DC Conrail GTW Santa Fe Burlington Northern Gp 38-2 39 SD 40 45 50-2 60 SD70MAC SD70ACe ES44DC 30-7 40-8 32-8 DASH9 ACC45TE 44CW SD9043Mac mkt ssw cot­ton belt dg­no tner hlcx necr llpx gmtx svgx ki­amichi rm­px railamer­i­ca in­ter­modal grain man­i­fest barf­bon­net her­itage naf­ta 1982 1983 1988 1989 1995 1996 2001 2002 4575 9647 2010 8444 3985 844 7400 ©

[@trainmaster844]

Sad to see 2248 make a return, only to be plagued by another problem... I swear that fireman's side cylinder is becoming her "Achilles' Heel". But, I believe that the cylinder head can be fixed... just make a new one and if that one breaks, make multiples, so they can be on hand, just in case!

[@joseph6270]

9:22 those cylinders look horrendous! please treat her right grapevine

[@steamgent4592]

So the two main causes of this is either Puffy isn't being drained with the cylinder drain cocks whenever she is left sitting for a bit or she is priming. Either way it can be cured with pressure release valves on the cylinder heads or in the newer steam era cocks produced in later years which do both. Sometimes called automatic cylinder cocks. They got lucky if the cylinder casting wasn't cracked as well. Heads are fairly easy to have custom made. Cylinders are harder but CAN be done. Just look at all the rebuilt and new built steam locomotives in the UK!

[@J.MBevinton-Locomotive_317.]

First time when April 2021 I hear a record whistle from Puffy #2248 least got to ride the Diesel engine.

[@sp4439]

Well breaking a cylinder head sure is a lot better that breaking the whole cylinder casting.

[@SCVRR66]

she's officially returning on October 18th!

[@vladimir2366fa]

Thanks you, Videos very nice,

[@unkonshus]

@jcordova How do you know this?

[@arlingtontrains7]

good video man.. poor puffy :(

[@crosscompound]

You can't see much with the jacketing on, obviously, but it looks like they may have just busted the front cylinder head. Not fun, but a far easier fix than the rear, or if the wrist pin worked its way out again and ravaged the entire cylinder casting (like the last time). In an ideal world, your easier-to-replace parts are designed to fail before the more difficult do, but these beasts do tend to have minds of their own.

[@blackbirdgaming8147]

Shame this loco won’t run again

[@RedRiverRailfan]

I agree. The GVRR is a shame really, they ruined poor 2248 and they’re just going downhill from there. Truly sad. I will be taking a trip down south this summer to railfan their diesels

[@blackbirdgaming8147]

@@RedRiverRailfan I’m moving nearby from California later this year. Hopefully they don’t disappear by then

[@RedRiverRailfan]

@@blackbirdgaming8147 awesome! Maybe they’ll still be running. They’re still making some money off of their trains from what I’ve seen. Hope you enjoy Texas!

[@blackbirdgaming8147]

@@RedRiverRailfan Thank you! I think I definitely will enjoy Texas. Totally by accident, my new house in Flower Mound has a view of BNSF tracks, and it’s not hard to get within a safe distance from the track. I just might turn into the crazy neighborhood guy that sets up a beach chair to watch trains on my days off haha.

[@jonmiller7400]

It's actually coming back. Was told by an employee at GVRR

[@mwand89]

The color of GVRR #2248 was similar to the colorful Disneyland steam locomotives.

[@maxwellsteam5810]

Whats the whistle?

[@North_Texas_Railfan]

Was there something wrong with Puffy at the end of the video?

[@TexasTrainProductions]

Yes, something happened causing the main piston to go too far and bust through the cylinder head.

[@bmptrainz7980]

​@@TexasTrainProductions I'm pretty sure water got into the cylinder and since water doesn't compress, that's what blew out the cylinder head. You'd have a lot more damage to either a) the cylinder head, since a piston busting through wouldn't just "crack" it, or b) the rest of your running gear because if the cylinder head is *that* strong to just crack if the piston traveled too far then you'll have a whole mess of problems on the other end when the running gear turns into spaghetti...

[@douglasbarnes7910]

If she would truly return that would be a different matter but she wont

[@NCsteamer]

Looks like the cover broke, piece of cake to repair!

[@douglasbarnes7910]

That diesel is ugly add the caboose back on