Farewell to Big Allis - Triple Expansion Engine, Phillipsburg, NJ
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- The Last Roll (1980s) for the 1913 Allis Chalmers (No. 1065) 300 horsepower, Vertical Triple-expansion Water Pumping Steam Engine at the Garden State Water Co. Pumping Station Phillipsburg, NJ. Pumping 4,200 Gallons/Minute, 6 MGPD from the Delaware River up to a reservoir which served Phillipsburg, New Jersey.
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My friend and I are directing the restoration of this engine to run on steam again. We have got a grant and are significantly into rebuilding the broken valve gear.
Congratulations, happy to learn this. Best of success as you move along this path. Thanks for the update.
A. E. Karnes
Any updates on the steam engine?
The engine is operational. The National Museum of Industrial History (Bethlehem) organized a tour on 7/30/2018. Much more info and videos on their Facebook page facebook.com/SteamTheTriple/
It is now breathing again.
@Jake Fussell No need for thanks, it simply had to be done.
I'm very happy to report that after a year and a half of work this engine ran again for the first time since this video was shot, on July 27th 2018.
Congratulations, we are very happy to hear about your success. We hope all goes well with the engine and no surprises surface. Lee Hite
On steam or air!? Boilers working!?
On steam or air!? Boilers working!? How come area wasn't robbed out of anything copper!?
@@chadbailey8152 On Steam, not with the in plant boilers, we brought in a rental boiler and had it set up outside. The building is presently also being used as storage for a transit heritage group, which is why no parts of the engine were robbed. The engine's copper and brass was bolted down, the stored materials, were not.
Thank u!
Excellent news! I have enjoyed your interactions with Keth Appleton. I'm very grateful you and others are restoring and raising awareness of US steam heritage. P.s...you are living my dream!
Look at the triple expalnsion engine at Kelham Island, Sheffield, UK...run every Sunday!
The roof has been repaired and work has started on repairing the engine with plans on getting the engine running again.
Thanks again for the updates. I wish you much success. We're still working on ours, much to do yet!
Cincinnati Triple Steam what do your engines need and which is the best candidate to get into steam again?
@@AEKarnes
The entire boilerhouse is demolished and gone. That's the problem the ones in Cincinnati.
Amazing survivor, sadly now gone I assume, along with the Delaware Lackawanna Electric MU cars that also disappeared in the early 80's. What a shame...
Big Allis was still standing as of August 2014. At that time is was being cared for by the Friends of the New Jersey Transportation Heritage Center.
Yes, the above is true. I do not believe it was destroyed but was at least protected. I know the building was in disarray over the decades but it would be too expensive to dismantle the pump and engine components so I am going to assume it will be there in perpituity for now... However, I am sure if there was enough money to restore it and have tours then the FofNJTHC would try. But I don't think we would see this money ever in the foreseeable future. Thank you so so much for whoever had this footage and put it on here. I was hoping so bad that someone would do that in the event they had such footage and here it is 20 years later. I had the fortune to see this pump up close and in person around 1988 and shortly after this film was shot, not in action though, when I was working as a remediation manager at the old J.T.Baker Chemical plant and had to check out all the area property layouts. It was amazing to see the boilers and then walk down a 3 or 4 story spiral staircase to the bottom of the engine. I would still like to see the construction of the actual pumping design basins because it was difficult to see exactally how the water would be drawn from the Delaware and into the pump house and it was too dark to get a good look in that area. It almost looked like it was channeled into big concrete culverts into the pump house and then from there to the storage basin and not actually from any type of actual well. I know that the pumps were replaced by 2 full time and a 3rd backup electric pump that then drew the water from a different location near the Delaware and using actual drilled wells a bit south from the former pumping location intake area. It was a big debate for all of us, the water company and the local environmental contractors (geologists and hydrogeologists) that were familiar with the geology of the underlying basin at the River and surrounding area water zones that the new wells were drawing from. Can you believe 2 electric wells could do all the same work and more as those giant old steam pumps and at what 1,000th of the cost and maintenance??? Incredible.
We think even the well installers of the new wells did not know or care about the actual water bearing zone specifics because it was tapping such a large capacity zone to draw from that it would never be a problem as a supply, so most of them just assumed that it may be a combination of the actual river water and a large water bearing zone that was coming down from the west side of Phillipsburg and entering in just at the deepest depth of the Delaware in that zone, so it would have technically tapped both the River and the input water table basin entering the River. Neat stuff!!! If anybody has any additional information or can confirm or deny the above and has the historical specifications please post it on here so we can get more accurate info. I wanted to purchase the old pump house and engine from the water department as is and turn it into a bar/restaurant but I knew they would never sell it to a private purpose and probably the permits and reconstruction for safety would have been ridiculous but it would have been great for all to see and enjoy. Hopefully, some day the Heritage can restore it just enough that it is safe for tours and charge a fee to see and recoup some costs.
My friend and I are directing the restoration of this engine. We have been given a grant to restore her. Sometimes we are in there working on it until 3 AM. It will run on live steam.
@@AEKarnes
Is the boilerhouse still there? The problem with the xincinatti engines is that the boilers are long gone.