That's why they didn't fire up the boiler, but "ran" it on compressed 
air from a large air compressor. It's still pretty amazing that the 
cylinders weren't frozen though. 

Mike M

-- RonMyers@wildblue.net wrote:
I watched that last night it was neat to that after setting for 35 
years
they actually got the steam engine working. My luck the boiler would 
have
blown up on me.
Ron.

> Did anyone happen to catch Mega Movers on the History channel
> tonight? Part of the program showed how a group of guys moved an old
> Bucyrus 50-B steam shovel off a mountain in CO. It took a crane,
> dozer, and an old Autocar to pull it out of the mud it was sitting
> in. Pretty interesting.
> Mike M
>
>
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