Pump station.
Looking north at pumpstation Lift #3 District Seven water district.
Originally a steam plant, western part of building. Eastern
part (Seven windows) built for the Nordberg in 1921.
West End Pumphouse
Looking ENE at boiler house of original steam plant. The big
rusty pipe stuck into the chimney was the muffler for the
Waukesha's that took the place of the Nordberg. Since replaced.
North side
North side of the Nordberg showing all six of the cylinders and
the starting air storage cylinders. The 'run' levers are along
the side of the engine right above all the lube injectors. The
left guage on the start-air manifold goes to 1500 pounds.
Different handwheels on the air bottles feed into different
parts of the start cylinder. (Left end of the engine) The big
pipe along the catwalk is the induction air manifold..
North side Lube
Three lube injectors and lube oil filters at operators start
position. The bigger pipe coming out of the floor is the lube
oil supply, the little one is bypass back to the tank under the
floorplates. The start/run levers are right above the lube
pipes but are not too apparent in the picture.
Fuel and Lube
Leaky fuel storage tanks. Against east wall of pumphouse. Two 250
gallon fuel tanks and a 200 gal lube oil tank, which feeds
another aux tank under the floorplates beside the engine. Vines
under tanks came in through window underneath. I have not yet
been able to trace out the fuel routing.
Starting cylinder
Starting cylinder/supercharger? with start-air compressor in
foreground. #1 run cylinder exhaust pipein left background.
Don't understand the significance of the four black caps
bolted onto the inlet and exhaust ports of the compressor ...
The intake air 'strainer' is atop the left hand manifold and
the hand wheel shaft goes up near it high up in the overhead.
Big vertical pipeon right is cooling water. (I think) Catwalk
and ladder on right side.
Starting air
Air storage cylinders and connecting manifolds. A great deal
of the air bottles are under the floorplates. No idea of
capacity. Main guage behind bottles reads to 1500 PSI.
Run Cylinders #1 and #2
Bad picture of rocker/injectors and one head. #1 cylinder lost
in gloom. (Light from windows fooled auto exposure in camera)
Overexposed nearest rocker and pushrod assy. Taken from catwalk
lookinf toward the east end of the engine. Start cylinder in
DEEP gloom.
Run Cylinders #1-#3
Taken through window from outside the building.good view of the
front three run cylinders and back side of start cylinder. BIG
pipes are the exhausts going down into the floor sump where the
exhaust manifold is. Funny little skinny horizontal pipes just
over the exhaust ports have the romex in them going to the
little gadgetscrewed into the exhaust pipe. Each cylinder has
one, and they're for all the world like EGT probes! All five
of them converge at the vertical pipe fastened to the #3
exhaust pipe and go down into the floor sump. Never found them
coming out...... Various coolant pipes going to the heads and
cylinders, and what looks like inspection portson the cylinders
themselves.... Suggestions as to their purpose? Inspection
covers into the crankcase near the bottom of the picture.
Exhaust side
Good shot of "EGT probe into #4 exhaust pipe, and 'inspection'
ports on cylinders. Exhaust pipes are about 10 inch cast.
Start Cylinder (South side)
Intake manifold showing handwheel shaft going up to the intake
strainer. It's a perforated box made out of brass about
12"x16" WAY up ther near the cieling. The little short
cylinder and head on the right end is the compressor for the
start air. Wish I knew what the long skinny shaft goes up to
the intake about. Good view of the #1 cyl "EGT"probe........
Junked out 'Jimmy'
One of the 'aux' Jimmy's used to handle light pumping loads.
Converted to natural gas. There were four of these and three
big old Waukeshas just inside the old boiler house when I used
to visit ten years or so ago.....
Me and the dog.
Me and Honeybun in my favorite chair. She shares it with me if I
ask nicely.
The keyboard and the monitor on my right are the new OS2 BBS and
the ones on my left are my workstation.
Happy Lady!
Dee just finished a thousand piece puzzle! She loves the things.
I put together the sky.... It took her nine days to put it
together.
Tired Dog!
My delicate little Great Dane Poss. Registered name is Posa
Negra of Waredane. Which means "Black hole" She's totally
invisible in the dark.
View out my back fence.
Taken a little over a week ago. Houses are now up to the corner
on both sides of the street. The orchard they pushed out by
'accident' is in the background. They've now cleared that and
are building two MORE streets north of the one where all the
workmen's trucks are parked. You can see how far I USED to be
able to see..... There'll be two houses in the open space behind
the green transformer.... Next month I'll be looking in my
neighbors bedroom windows if I look here.
Boo! Manor from east subdivision.
I'm about halfway down the stree they just finished across the
street from my house. The two palm trees I planted 30 years ago
were two leaves. THe short one I planted fifteen years ago.
They were flushing the storm sewers from the fireplugs is what
that hose across the street is about. 95 lots in this
subdivision.....
Boo! Manor just across highway.
Here I'm just across the higway from the house standing in the
circle of the new subdivision street. To the left is
the subdivision entrance and the model home backed up to my south
fence. Those damn flags in their yard drive us INSANE with their
flopping and bangin the ropes on the flagpoles. The bigass ugly
OBRA sign blocked out last possible view out of our office
window.
The poor bedraggled tree to the right of our drive in gate is the
one where Dee stomped her feet and cussed the supervisor who was
watching his backhoe destroy HER tree!
We'll soon have houses out to the road where that right hand
power pole is. Won't that be FUN!!