Portal:Trains/Selected picture/Week 7, 2008

Replacing the tire on a steam locomotive driving wheel.

The work is being done here in March 1943 at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway locomotive shops in Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of a gas flame until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in place.