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Simply amazing, and no, I don't think anyone else would be capable of doing this work!
The frame castings on those larger engines boggle the mind.
PRR made their own. The frame and cyliinders were one casting. They claimed that they could cast everything other than the engineer and fireman.
The foreshortening from the video perspective robs some of the impact of just how big this thing is. I think you could get most of the work done in the U.K., where they likely have more people qualified to work on steam units, but I also doubt that they have any remaining facility capable of this huge level of job. Where, Comrade, would you assume could do the job? When you specified only Western Hemisphere, I figure you have somewhere in mind. India, perhaps?
Brits and the Germans might. Tornado had components built in both countries.
China certainly could have, at least, up until fairly recently. I don't know hw much f their maintenance capability they've retained.
I gather than the Big Boys were actually made in Schenectady NY by Alco. That area around Albany was once the Silicon Valley of the late 1800s and early 1900s. There is a brass valve foundry there that made the original valves for the Panama Canal locks...which are still working just fine...and the company is still making valves and pouring bronze.
One of the first big industrial successes there was by a man named Burden who invented a machine for mass -producing horseshoes...and made his million supplying the Union Army's cavalry with horseshoes. Another factory forged the hull armor for the Monitor. Burden's factory still exists and hosts a foundation that stages tours of the remnants of that age....like Steinmetz's original hydroelectric plant (still generating power a hundred years later and that brass valve foundry. The wealth that flowed through the area also furnished the churches with stained glass windows by Tiffany (and even one Tiffany interior that is like being inside a jewel box); Burden regaularly hosts tours of them. More here:
http://www.hudsonmohawkgateway.org/BIWMWhatIsIt.html
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