Running John's 2-6-0

Well this did play correctly...and now it isn''t... John brought over his 2-6-0 and we had fun running her. We ran both ways around the track. John had the loco over on Thursday and we started the valve gear overhaul (tightened up the eccentric straps on the eccentrics, replaced the eccentric rod pins/bushings, replaced the links and link blocks) and we will need to finish the valve gear overhaul and reset the valves. Over the past 2 years we have done quite a bit of work to the loco to make it run better - we quickly set the valves 2 years ago while the valve gear had a decent amount of slop in it, did a boiler wash, installed the tender brakes, built/fabricated/installed/plumbed the engine brakes, overhauled the steam oil lubricator, plumbed each lubricator pump to the steam chests, replumbed the whistle, fixed a leaking joint on the steam line to injector, cleaned the injector, and started the valve gear overhaul this week.