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Thursday, May 13. 2010Wood Shop Update - May 12, 2010Lots to show and tell for this entry including a variety of other work going on at IRM.
It is always exciting to see a restoration project nearing completion. Tim Peters is applying the numbers to CRT 1268 and it involves some careful hand painting.
Tim has already completed the application of RAPID TRANSIT to both letterboards of the car, it is really looking sharp and the lettering sets off thousands of restoration hours spent on the car.
John Faulhaber was helping Henry Vincent install one of the new shop made windows on CNS&M 757, while Frank Sirinek cheers them on.
Later on John Faulhaber volunteered to plunge eight more mortises for new windows for caboose 9792. And still later he was working with Gerry Dettloff to cut and fit a template for new roof saddles for TM D 13.
Rich Witt was on hand and continued his fine work making a new signbox sash for CA&E 409, his second one for this project.
Frank Sirinek has been making roof repairs and other doing other work on the Vera Cruz 19 open car. This is some of the fancy filligree scrollwork now found on the dashes of this open car. For now Frank plans to keep it in the red livery for this coming operating season, perhaps painting over the CP&SW lettering.
And here is the number which appears in one spot on each end. All of this needs to be documented, and then scaled, sized, and reproduced in drawings or with decals to be ready after the re-painting proceeds. |
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Was the CB&Q 1309 every transported to IRM?I’ve been reading old issues of Rail&Wire and the car was mentioned several times.
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