Session G tuesday continues

[Ed Lowrance]

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[Fred L. Kuhns]

Ed, the report of a Lee Bates DVD of the friends work sessions is just what the our museum needs to tell the story of our great volunteers. The effect of a good DVD will provide material to help tell our story, plus give people who do programs on the local level some much needed help in explaining how our volunteers effect the railroad. Look forward to your next up dates on session G, thanks again for your reports. Fred L. Kuhns

[John Cole]

Watching Chris and his crew figuring out where & how to bend that brake line really showed how labor intensive that job was. There was one piece that had something like 10 bends in it to make everything fit properly. Not only that, that thick old brake pipe wants to stay straight, and when you get it to bend, you know you have bent some STEEL!

That little orange Kubota tractor hardly ever cools off during work sessions as there is always a job waiting to keep that thing busy. I don't know what we would do without it.

Working on that gon stripping off all of the old rotten sills was a lot of work, not only was the wood rotted to mulch in places, EVERY SINGLE NUT AND BOLT had been rusted in place for about 90 years and had to use the 'blue flame wrench' to get all of the jamb nuts and nuts to unscrew off of the bolts.