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Monday, September 11. 2017The Painted Lady
We had to moved the 3345 out of barn 10 and reposition it so that's it better light for painting. Now its in eastern half front of the barn and you can get a better view of her.
 We jist started pulling the coach out of the barn. Its tied on to the 2524.  The orange is freshly painted  Its a coming out of the barn party.  Its was a little windy and of course the plastic started pealing off.  Remember this is what the car was like before we painted it. This is the other side!  Thats Paul Cronin riding in the vestibule. Photo  We have shoved the 2524 already in barn 10 and now we are moving the 3345 in position.  Another view  We still must paint the trucks and some of the underbody. Saturday, September 9. 2017Preping then Painting of the IC 3345
Here are a couple of prepping pictures followed by the main painting event. Yes, after all this sanding and masking we finally got down to the main event! Now, you readers will have to remember that this is an 85 foot passenger car. Its the longest type made for American railroad. It takes a lot of volunteer hours, therefore, to get the job done correctly. Incidently, Howard and I decided he should spray three coats for each color.
 A couple of windows here yet to mask and then Howard can go to work and start painting the first coat of brown.  He first sprayed both ends of the coach to see how the Sherwin Williams paint would cover.  Here Jeff is posing for the camera and pointing to a sign I made.  The other sprayed end.  This is September 1, 2017, and Howard is spraying the second coat of brown.  Here is the results of the third and finally coat of brown.  The masking paper has been removed and now you can see results of all our hard work. Saturday, September 2. 2017The Prepping of the IC 3345
The prep work leading up to the final painting seems to be the most important therefore the most labor intensive. As you will see by these next pictures the crew on most work days was at least three or four people. My thanks to all that all volunteering on this project. Here is what happened two weeks ago!
 Here I am sanding some imperfections on the first coat.  Dave Cook sanding on the car body  Curt started masking the windows Good start to a difficult job  In order to have the next coat of paint to adhere we need to scuff the surface. Dan is working on this job!  Not to be out done Loraine, Dans wife, is also scuffing the surface.  Jeff is sanding vestibule platform end of the coach near the roof line.  As you can see we are already masking off the next area to paint. That will be the Brown above and below the windows.  Curt still working on masking the windows. That takes an awfully lot of time but its well worth the extra effort. Its a real job to clean each window once it has been hit by overspray. |
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