[SEL] Tod Engine Moved to Museum!!!

[Luke Tonneberger]

Hi Rick,

Thanks for taking the pics and putting them up. It was exciting to click 
through all the pics on the site. I've seen some of them before but it 
doesn't get old looking at them. The size of these pieces just blows me 
away! It was neat to see the pics of the concrete at the museum site. Looks 
really nice. Is there any type of drain in the bottom of the flywheel pit?  
Do you keep it covered to keep the rain water out?  What fills up the gap 
from the concrete pad to the bottom of the low pressure bedplate? Is this 
where the grout goes?

Luke Tonneberger
Rockford, Michigan
USA
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>To: sel at lists.stationary-engine.com
>Subject: [SEL] Tod Engine Moved to Museum!!!
>Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:20:57 EDT
>
>Yesterday two 50 ton hydraulic cranes and four semi trucks from Grim's 
>Crane
>service arrived at the plate mill building at V&M Star Steel in Girard, OH 
>to
>begin loading out parts of the Tod Engine for shipment to the future Tod
>Engine Museum site.  By the end of the day one of the flywheel halves was 
>on a
>trailer and the LP bedplate was ready to lift.
>
>Today we successfully moved both halves of the flywheel, low pressure
>bedplate and LP soleplate to the Tod Engine Museum site.  The LP bedplate 
>and sole
>plate were placed into position on the concrete, and one flywheel half was
>placed into the pit.  A total of 239,000 lbs. of engien parts were moved in 
>a
>convoy this afternoon.
>
>Tommorrow we will complete this phase of the project by unloading the
>remaining flywheel half and doing some fine adjustments on the locations of 
>the
>bedplate, to assure that they will line up with the crank and flywheel when 
>the
>remainder of the engine is assembled.
>
>We had full media coverage for the move.  All three local TV network
>affiliates had newscrews for interviews, the Youngstown Vindicator sent a 
>reporter as
>well as the local Business Journal. Mr. David Tod, one of our past
>benefactors, also was on hand to view the work in progress. The Tod Family 
>is still quite
>interested in the project, and the son of William Tod, of whose company 
>built
>our engine, will be in town and I plan to give him a personal tour of the
>engine and grounds.
>
>After tommorrow's work the riggers will return in about a week to move and
>set the low pressure cylinder. After that is completed the only parts that 
>will
>remain at V&M Star Steel will be the high pressure bedplate, cylinder and
>crankshaft.  These parts will move early next year.
>
>Photos of today's work is on the webshots site at
>http://community.webshots.com/user/todengine
>
>For the remainder of the year the Tod Engine Foundation will focus on 
>filling
>in and constructing the concrete pad for the high pressure side of the
>engine, and cleaning and painting the parts that are at the museum site.
>
>These last two days have certainly been good ones for us!  Thanks to 
>everyone
>on the SEL wrecking crew whose work eight years ago dismantling this engine
>made today's success possible!!!
>
>Rick Rowlands
>Tod Engine Foundation
>Youngstown, OH
>www.todengine.org

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