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Friday, July 18. 2014
A great week, July, 8 thur July, 12 Posted by Roger Kramer
in Rock Island 2612 at
23:02
Comments (5) A great week, July, 8 thur July, 12As a team we again accomplished so much this last week that it really looks like the interior of a Rock Island coach. Most importantly, we are winding down the painting phase and beginning the installation of window frames, seats, walkover handles and window shades. Loraine and Dan Bixler have been very faithful working on the 2612. Dan has been cleaning and painting the 100 supporting brass strips that hold the 50 windows in place. This is the youngest member of our team, Austin Harvey. He is scraping the window sill in preparation for the installation of a window frame Masking paper removed from around the door frame and its now painted green. THIS is the last major wall paint job on the 2612! Not bad. We did all this work in 18 months As Pauline said in her last blog, the department needs your continue support. Please consider a donation to any of the ongoing projects mentioned in the last few blogs. We the volunteers, would greatly appreciate your supporting any of our projects. Thank You Roger Kramer Friday, July 18. 2014
Steam Department Update 07-17-2014 Posted by Nigel Bennett
in Steam Department at
20:39
Comments (11) Steam Department Update 07-17-2014
It continues to absorb a lot of time to run #1630 but we have now started to see more jobs moving in parallel with the operations.Recently #1630 has run as scheduled. Unfortunately we will now be running less frequently, generally every other weekend due to the shortage of trained crews. Brian came up from Florida for two weeks and allowed us to run all weekend days in the last two weeks but now we have guys on vacation and it is more difficult.
Last week required a lot of effort to get ready for the weekend.
Anyway, the good news is that she has run reliably despite these issues and the coal pile is now down to not much more than one week’s supply. After that we can get some new stuff and hopefully get beyond the uncertainty.
Work has progressed in a number of areas and plans for the next projects are becoming clearer.
Aside from the Winter work on #1630 our main projects will be the Shay and #428. Much of the work on the latter is welding and machining so most people will be working on the Shay.
In addition, before #1630 comes in for the Winter, the objective is to get a coat of paint on #938. This is the first of a whole lot of static display engines that sorely need such treatment.
So a lot has been happening and there will hopefully be more in the next few weeks when we are able to run #1630 rather less.
Nigel
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