Crews lower the boiler for Engine 60 into place May 5. BILL SHULL PHOTOS
Rail fans watch the historic moment that the boiler is attached to the running gear.
Two large rotators from Betts Towing in Newark lift the boiler and running gear into place.
The boiler is lowered onto a pin on the saddle.
An employee from FMW Solutions, the contractors that restored the locomotive, looks inside the boiler.
A worker checks to make sure the engine’s wheels are lined up with the rails, as the running gear is lowered.
The rotators lift and swing the running gear into place on the rails, the final resting place for Engine 60.
Lewes Mayor Amy Marasco, left, and Councilman Joe Elder watch as the running gear is lowered into place.
The place where the boiler is attached to the running gear is called the saddle. It had to be sanded down before the main section was lowered into place.
Randy Voith of LJRBA gets some video of the running gear as crews carefully lower it onto the rails.
Jerry Virden leans over to get a closer look at the big steel wheels on Engine 60. Virden grew up about 100 yards from the display. He said he remembers when the trains were still rolling in and out of Lewes on the same track.
Randy Voith, left, and David Ludlow of LJRBA, check out the running gear, the first of three sections of Engine 60.
A member of the team from Betts Towing checks the cables before a large rotator lifted the boiler.
The back end of the boiler that will be facing the Pennsylvania Railroad coal tender that was placed on the rails in 2025.
Bill Shull
May 5, 2026…