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Shown
here is how every piece of both of these large engines had to pass
through a 10' square door to be removed from the powerhouse. This
was an interesting maneuver as the forklift inside would hand off the
various pieces to the forklift outside. From here the pieces were
taken to the flatbed trailers waiting to haul the pieces back to the
Camp Creek grounds. |
| To
help lend a little perspective to the size of this machine, the author
is shown here next to one half of the 15' flywheel resting outside the
powerhouse. This piece alone weighs nearly 7 tons. |
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Shown
here are the first two flatbed trailers of the Allis pieces as they
arrived on the organization's grounds. This was the result of a
nearly 12 hour day. The only pieces of the engine left in the
powerhouse at this point were the steam cylinder and the main
frame. |
| Several
weekends later came the final day when the last pieces of both engines
in the Regional Center powerhouse would be removed. Here the steam
cylinder for the Camp Creek engine is on the forklift on its way to the
truck. Note the men on the back of the forklift - the forklift
barely had enough muscle to lift this large cylinder! |
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The
main frame was perhaps the easiest of all of the large pieces to
remove. It was lifted up and skidded off of the engine foundation,
and then placed on rollers to take it out of the engine room door. |
| Finally,
the last pieces of the Allis-Chalmers engine arrived at the Camp Creek
grounds in the early summer of 2000. The engine remains in storage
at our grounds at this time until the restoration of the Worthington
Steam Air Compressor and Cleaver Brooks boiler have been completed. |
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