Tod Engine - Inside the LP Bedplate

[@LordLlurch]

Fred Dibnah is mighty proud of you, and so am I. You're a gatekeeper of history, doing work for future generations. In 200 years from now,they can look at these machines in awe, realizing that these things build the world they then live in. If I didn't live half the globe away from you, I would have helped you every spare day I had. I wish you all the best!

[@YoungstownSteelHeritage]

Thanks! Fred is still a great inspiration to me and I hope to follow in his footsteps as much as possible. Except for climbing chimneys. I hate going up high!

[@davelewandoski4292]

Great explaintion Rick. And you do what you can do with what you have avalible.

[@YoungstownSteelHeritage]

Since I used the front facing camera on my phone for this video, it is reversed.

[@andywander]

Happy Thanksgiving, Rick!

[@alexmodern6667]

You are such an outstanding teacher, I can sit here and soak up the immeasurable amount of technical knowledge you imparting. Where could one go to listen to this technical review but your Railway, Have blessed holiday.😊

[@bcbloc02]

230klb crankshaft is the real deal!

[@BIBSTERSrepairshop]

Awesome update can’t wait to see it running again

[@OfficialEthanStillCodes-9229]

This is amazing Rick! I really also hope you one day renovate the museum to make it look nicer, and more like a museum. Love your videos.

[@scowell]

I didn't realize (I should have noticed, I saw the valves) that only one side was Corliss... blowing my mind, because I know that normally a rolling mill engine must be reversible. Was this mill different? Corliss engines are not reversible I understand... that's why there are no railroad Corliss engines.

[@YoungstownSteelHeritage]

Thos particular rolling mill was a cross country type with the steel going through the stands in one direction only.

[@waynespyker5731]

A millwright? You can do it. As an injection mold engineer it is hard for me to visualize the foundry and patternwork. If along the way you have the Corliss rotary valves removed please video them. 1992-1997 I visited Packard Electric in Warren, Ohio from South Central Pennsylvania almost weekly, saw many snowstorms at Hopkins. Nice people, was amazed small town new automobile dealers always had a train garden in their front window about this time of the year.

[@silver3323]

Hello Rick, I wonder if it would be more convenient to use a builder’s laser level, instead of the piano wire technique? Unless, of course, you are choosing to use a technique consistent with the age of the engine. Very interesting video. Thank you. Bill

[@silver3323]

Ah, just watched the next video. Ignore my comment, I’ve just fallen in.

[@mikus4242]

Hope you had a Merry Thanksgiving.

[@randyclyde4939]

Thanks, Rick! Amazing information on the Tod! "It takes just a little work"! That's my understatement of the week! Thanks for sharing, I hope your Thanksgiving was great! Be well, be safe!

[@austinbrodzinski4444]

Rick, you're always on vacation! 🤣 In all seriousness, thank you for doing these videos so that other people get to see this stuff firsthand. I am also thankful to be a part of the J&LNG and the YSHF, to get to work on these fascinating machines is truly an honor. I highly suggest anyone who is thinking about volunteering to come out and help!

[@Gin-toki]

Man that is huge! I totally get you about what a joy you get from working on stuff like this, I'm the same way. The most relaxing thing for me to do is tinkering with electronics or mechanics and I can go on indefinetly with that stuff :D Thanks for the video, it's always interresting to see the stuff you work on and happy thanksgiving from Denmark (Northern Europe) :)

[@PRR5406]

How the heck did they move the monster engine to this location?

[@YoungstownSteelHeritage]

We took it apart and moved it in sections. One of my earlier videos shows how we did it.

[@johntomassetti3818]

This is an amazing engine. Can you tell us what the position tolerances are?