In February and early April of 2008, Barry completed the drives
and started on the boiler.
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Some words from Barry on this project…
Progress on the L131 project. It is just big, so big that it is hard to handle. This will be the first engine that I do not have to add a metal weight to. Don't ask me how much it weighs, but it is heavy. the boiler is over a half inch thick at the largest point. The pictures show the pipe attached to the engines on the layout, before I added the taper to it. Later pictures show how I added the strips to build it up and add the 40 thou thick jacket sheet to it. I then turned the boiler upside down and filled it with urethane, to make it solid between the pipe and the outside 40 thou jacket. The basic boiler is done and the running boards are going on next, followed by a bunch of foo foo to make it look good. I added the sound speaker in the fire box area, so sound will come from the engine, instead of the tender. I may add an additional speaker in the smoke box area, if I think it needs it.