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I am going to try and group these according to project. All were shot with my personal camera and not one of the point and shoots that they were handing out.
I am starting with the wheel and tie car which basically had to be taken down to the framing and rebuilt.

In this shot looking up the car, you can see the new beams that were installed.

Sometimes bolts need encouragement to fit.

This is the only shot I have of the block and tie car.

This is the flanger OK and we see Bill and Billy working on the lettering.

Showing some of the detail of the wings.

Looking into an area not often seen, the journal packing box on the OK.

Shot of the Gramps Oil loading rack crew getting the new decking up onto the supports.

They needed a tank car spotted at one of the loading points so they could adjust the filling nozzle and the gang plank to the car. We see Conductor Ray working with one of the crew to spot the car.

This is how you paint the piping used to construct the oil rack, paint mit.

The finished Gramps Oil loading rack showing the metering house at the left end, the gang boards at each loading position and the spouts.

Lets now look at the work on the new kitchen storage car. Here the plywood interior sheathing is being applied.

The sheathing is done and painted.

Mr. Beyer, the team leader, is laying the vinyl flooring which looks like wood.

Flooring done, shelves are now being built.

Light fixtures are being hung on the ceiling.

A shot of the hoist house of the coal tipple.

The crew that painted the RPO in the 'new' green.

Thursday is a very popular day at the kitchen car since hamburgers are cooked and served. Here Jeanne is doing the honours of cooking everyone's burger.

As I noted in my first post about the session, the roof on the kitchen car was leaking. Here we see the work crew painting the new roof walk supports.

Great photos Sharon, geez, you must have been standing right by me when Ray was backing that tank car under the oil rack boom. Tom Hindman, (the guy on the right pulling the new deck panels off of the tractor forks) broke his left wrist a few months ago, yet still came out to work session and was a BIG HELP. That boy is TOUGH!

Thanks John...

Don says they started working on the wheel and tie car at the beginning of session C, there was so much decay in the sills that they had to take the car down to the wheelsets. About the only original wood on that car are the end sills as they were in good condition.

Don said that by the end of session F the car is FINISHED, only requiring painting and stenciling to make it roadworthy again. He said there are only 20 days of working on that car from start to finish. That HAS to be some kind of record for the Friends.

I still think it is amazing what they do with the equipment.