How were the wheels or tires on Steam Locomotives changed if they got to worn out or if they broke? I’ve seen photos of it before but the photos didn’t give me the slightest clue on how it was done.
Willy[:)]
Do you mean the entire wheel and axle set, or just the tire on the wheel? I know that the “tire tread” on the wheel would be heated until it fell off, and a new one slipped on quickly. Of course a crane would hold up the loco while the siderods were removed and the axles slipped out.
Adrianspeeder
I’m curious about both the wheel and the tire on the wheel.
Willy[:)]
trains october 1996 covered how UP restored the 844.the process where they had to lay off the drivers.Good article.
stay safe
joe
Even today there are sleaves and bearing races, among other things, that have to be heated in order to get them onto the shafts. It doesn’t take a lot of heat to expand a tire. No where near red.
just a few hundred degrees evenly aplied.
A good torch man can slice the old tire with out cutting into the wheel so popping on the tire is the only hassle and thats only an “old Indian trick”
The “old boys” can really make it look easy.
Sooblue
How were the wheels or tires on Steam Locomotives changed if they got to worn out or if they broke? I’ve seen photos of it before but the photos didn’t give me the slightest clue on how it was done.
Willy[:)]
Do you mean the entire wheel and axle set, or just the tire on the wheel? I know that the “tire tread” on the wheel would be heated until it fell off, and a new one slipped on quickly. Of course a crane would hold up the loco while the siderods were removed and the axles slipped out.
Adrianspeeder
I’m curious about both the wheel and the tire on the wheel.
Willy[:)]
trains october 1996 covered how UP restored the 844.the process where they had to lay off the drivers.Good article.
stay safe
joe
Even today there are sleaves and bearing races, among other things, that have to be heated in order to get them onto the shafts. It doesn’t take a lot of heat to expand a tire. No where near red.
just a few hundred degrees evenly aplied.
A good torch man can slice the old tire with out cutting into the wheel so popping on the tire is the only hassle and thats only an “old Indian trick”
The “old boys” can really make it look easy.
Sooblue