Thursday June 7, 2014

[Joe Kanocz]

Dr Soos and Herb after the test run of the coal tipple

Pipe racks in the PRO

Tank cars being painted with primer

Rack area for storage

[Joe Kanocz]

Also, something about using the Friend's Forum. If you haven't tried this, aim your mouse over the photo of the RPO. Click your mouse again over the expanded photo. And click it again to enlarge it. The photos uploaded are not compressed unless the person uploading the photo compressed.

Notice the detail of the workmanship.

[John Cole]

The guy spraying around the coupler in the third photo is Al Stevenson who is one of the original guys who helped save the CATS in the late 60s and if you go in either depot you will see a bronze plaque with his name and him in the group photo in his Rio Grande Conductors uniform. I was privileged to have him on our team.

[Joe Kanocz]

Al was doing the priming today. He's got the spray gun next to the coupler.

[John Cole]

Poor Don Bayer, in 3 days we ran just under SIX TONS of sand through Andy's sand blaster cleaning the two narrow frame tankers down to the bare metal and had a 'little' problem with the dust drifting down to his RPO car.

Don said that "if I needed more sand, he has about 50 pounds of it that got in his car". Oops!