A Lombard lives again! (Almost...)

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A Lombard lives again! (Almost...)

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Just thought everyone would like to see this, they are very nearly finished restoring the Lombard Log Hauler at Leonard's Mills museum in Bradley Maine, and they ran it on air yesterday.
http://youtu.be/633a6Bej5Ek



The boiler has been inspected and tested, the engines have been tuned, and all the major parts are done. Just a few more small parts to go and they are going to be firing it up and running it on steam sometime in the next few weeks. I'll be there and I'll try to get some footage to show everyone. It's aliiive!
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Duck


That is great...they are doing a great job on uch an unusual piece of stem history look forward to seeing more
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For those interested, here's a link to quite a bit of the restoration, at least from where UMaine took it over.
http://umaine.edu/met/capstone-projects ... storation/
It's been quite a long process and for the whole story you can check out the Leonard's Mills website.
www.leonardsmills.com/
It's a goal of mine to eventually make one of these in 1 1/2" scale and live steam.
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Great to see one more brought back from the grave. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Great video, I look forward to seeing her under steam. Funny looking tender :lol:
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Great work!

I got a chance to be the engineer on the one at Clark's Trading Post one cold winter day. Amazing, without pulling a load, I was surprised at
how fast it could coast down a small hill....scary! And the crew is at the mercy of the driver. Make sure you get your whistle commands right!

My hat is off to the guys that operated one of these things in the woods for a living!

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My daughter Liz and I were engineers on the Lombard at Clark's in March of 2011. What a fun machine to run but a bear to steer.

This link should lead to a public photo album from that weekend.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... dfd3e40004
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What the "Duck" hasn't mentioned is his significant involvement in casting new bronze parts for the Lombard. This meant a time intensive involvement in fabricating the molds, casting, and re-finishing the parts. Kudos to Dr. Herb Crosby and the Mechanical Engineering students of the University of Maine at Orono, for bringing this magnificent beast back to life. And don't tell me there isn't a snowmobiler around who wouldn't rather be driving this through the Maine woods! Just the quizzical looks from the moose would make it worthwhile.
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I missed the initial steam-up. Crap! Darn this stupid work thing. Well, they did it, it ran, it snorted, it moved under its own motive power for the first time in 80 odd years. Yeehah!
http://youtu.be/MpqApLsfATg
Hopefully I'll be there for the next one. Thanks by the way Dick, mine was only a small part in the whole and I didn't want to toot my own horn. I'm proud to have worked on it and helped some.
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PRR5406 wrote:What the "Duck" hasn't mentioned is his significant involvement in casting new bronze parts for the Lombard. This meant a time intensive involvement in fabricating the molds, casting, and re-finishing the parts. Kudos to Dr. Herb Crosby and the Mechanical Engineering students of the University of Maine at Orono, for bringing this magnificent beast back to life. And don't tell me there isn't a snowmobiler around who wouldn't rather be driving this through the Maine woods! Just the quizzical looks from the moose would make it worthwhile.
And at least if the Moose did decide to chase you, you stand a better chance. And yes, as a snowmobiler I have seen my share of Moose on the trails. :shock:

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Yesterday, August 16th 2014, they officially ran Lombard #38 on steam publicly for the first time. They also dedicated #38 to the memory of Bill Lynch, who's dogged perserverance finally reached fruition this weekend. 2/3rds of the operable Lombard log haulers now reside at the Maine Forestry and Logging Museum in Bradley, Maine. All 2 of them.
It ran like a champ, they stopped a few times to check a few things out, and it did three or four laps of the parking area, probably a distance in excess of a mile or so. I was able to take a ride on the last loop, and got some bird's eye video from the woodbox. They ran it at a bit less than 80 PSI, I heard them say that they could move it on as little as 60. Enjoy the videos, it was a great time Saturday!

http://youtu.be/gcjADcO5dVM
http://youtu.be/z0hme5NvGqo
http://youtu.be/yVr0DARtevs
http://youtu.be/rCb88-EVDdQ
http://youtu.be/sPvXrWwl1cg
http://youtu.be/apT_c49lyDc
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OddDuck wrote: 2/3rds of the operable Lombard log haulers now reside at the Maine Forestry and Logging Museum in Bradley, Maine. All 2 of them.
I am curious about your "2/3rds" statement. I know of the Lombard at Clark's Trading Post and the Harry Crooker Lombard which I last saw at the Owl's Head Transportation Museum. If there are two at the Maine Forestry Museum, that would make four operable Lombards. Or did either the Crooker or Clark Lombard move to Bradley?

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