Friday 8/3/17

[Sharon Evans]

Work on the paint car 3686

Painting the second of the end opening doors

The fully mounted door with all its hardware and stop

The work continues on the paint car as one of the team grinds on the upper door guide

Two other mount the lower door guides

Getting the stop mounted on the sliding side door

The cut lever is on one end of the of the paint car, looks like the B end since that vertical rod could be the brake wheel rod

The members of the hard working team trying to get as much done on the paint car before the session ends

Several from the car inspectors house at Cumbres Pass

Working further on the porch roof at the car inspectors house

Installing the edge flashing

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[Sharon Evans]

The restoration of the paint car 3686

On box car 3476, one end has its sheathing done

Fitting the floor boards prior to nailing

Getting the flooring nailed in

2018-08-03 The floor boards are in and the brake wheel is lying there

2018-08-03 The protective covering is on the roof of the paint car

2018-08-03 The smiling team that has been working on the restoration of the paint car

2018-08-03 The team working on the conversion is now wrapping the car for storage.jpg (114.35 KiB) Viewed 3732 times

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[Sharon Evans]

Antonito

Its simple but necessary

Making wheel stops for the track in the CRF

Attaching a coupler to one of the tank cars, most probably the Gramps

Using the front end loader to pick up 2 couplers for the tank car

Being directed into the CRF to place them on that pallet

Gingerly, these things can crush, they coax them onto the pallet

Doing some grinding on the couple shaft to get it to fit in properly

Again using the loader, the team is now moving one of the couplers into the pocket before putting on the tank car

Some smiling faces as the coupler fits into its new pocket

Now that the coupler is in the pocket, its lifted up into the coupler housing on the car

Looks like the pin has been driven into place

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[Sharon Evans]

Tank car coupler installation continued

Wal lah, the coupler is now in place on the car

Some other work

Outside, one member is priming metal parts

The primed metal pieces are being place together

[Craig Kumler]

Very nice pics! Anyone know where the Tank Car couplers came from?

[John Cole]

Chris says the Friends bought them new, and thankfully they bought four, so we have enough for the latest Gramps tanker we got last year.

[Sharon Evans]

Looking at the pictures, I thought that they were new since they had a bar coded stock sticker on them.

[John Cole]

Chris says that the custom made spring pack adaptor was custom made back in Pennsylvania near his work and each one weighs about 300#. He lugs another one out here for session G so it should go a lot faster now that the learning curve is (hopefully) over.

[Craig Kumler]

Thanks John for the update! I hope the friends will put a tank car special together soon! Chris, Randy and others have done a great job in restoring these cars.