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NG/G Update; Rounding out 2016

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Above, the NG/G16 boiler cradle, complete with boiler, sits suspended between the 2 engine units for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Brand new intermediate reversing shafts have been machined and assembled, which sit in the pivot center castings at each end of the boiler cradle, and transfer the movement of the reverser to the weighshaft on the engine units.

Finally, on the 9th August, the boiler cradle, complete with boiler, was married with the engine units for the first time in about 20 years.

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