Commentary about volunteering to overhaul the 200 hp LeRoi engine in a Whitcomb switch locomotive for a non profit museum. I got it running in 2009. TitanX Donated a new radiator core in 2011. Plymouth locomotive arrives 2014.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Titanx Radiator Core
Chris Bohn works for Titanx. Chris decided to take on the project of making a radiator core for the museum’s Whitcomb locomotive. Even though Titanx makes radiators for trucks and buses, they did not have a stock core big enough for the Whitcomb locomotive. Company president, Matt Moore, gave permission to build a super radiator using Titanx company resources, as time permitted.
The top and bottom pieces of the core are called the headers. Hollow tubes are soldered between the headers to make the core. Special headers were made by splicing two standard headers together. This was done with special wire in the Titanx sample shop. The new core should be completed in November.
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