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Posted: **Sat Jul 25, 2020 11:46 am**

This thread will include Wednesday as well as Thursday and Friday, if it does not get unruly again.
Lets start the shots for today with a few of the ancillary work necessary to keep things running.

: The lunch crew at the CRF fills up the bags to be handed out

: One Friend has made their choice of things to add to the bag

: Three of the Antonito crew

: Taking bags out of one of the storage box cars

: A Friend is under the end of a car, why, I don't know so put it here

Now a few more from the rebuilding of caboose 5635.

: Sanding the copula for 5635 in preparation for painting

: Scraping the wood on a platform on 5635 to get ready for painting

: Working on a window frame in the copula of 5635

: The new sheathing inside 5635 gets a coat of varnish

One of the major tasks for this session was to clean up the area around the CRF and here are some shots of that being done.

: Pilling up old wood in the bucket of the loader

: There is a lot of old wood around the CRF that needs to be cleaned up

: Stacking up this old wood

: Getting a load of old wood ready to dump

: Using the loader to assist in the clean up around the CRF

: Where all good scrap wood goes to die, the tip

: Work on cleaning up the ground around the wheel press

: The loader dumps more dirt to assist in leveling the area around the wheel press

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Posted: **Sun Jul 26, 2020 10:04 am**

On Wednesday, the work on rebuilding trucks for tank cars continued.

: A nice shot of the springs in place on one of the rebuilt trucks

: Looking down at the spring pocket

: The brake shoe hanger is on the truck

: A shot of the rigging needed for the brakes to work

: Another look down at the brake rigging and the adjuster arm

: Looking at the top of the truck we see the bearing plate for the king pin

: And behold, the truck is now under the tank car and seated

: Here we can see the roller on which the truck moves

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Posted: **Sun Jul 26, 2020 10:13 am**

Thursday at Antonito:
Work on the caboose 5635 continued with prep work for final painting as well as other work need to finish this project.

: Priming around one of the 5635s windows

: Priming of the window continues

: Priming the outside of the 5635

: Priming over the old paint on 5635

: Priming on the scraped platform of 5635

: Staining the inside of the 5635

: Not really sure, maybe the back of a toilet

: Another angle of the work on the plumbing of this item

: Fabrication of the sink stand for 5635

: The faucet is in place and the water hose is pulled out

: Washing off the roof of the 5635

: Another shot of the hosing of the 5635 roof

: Working on some wood to go into the 5635

: Getting that board set for use

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Thursday's work continues with outside cleanup.

: Working inside the storage container where the lumber is kept

: They are restacking the lumber it seems

: Looks like he is placing a spacer to hold the wood off the deck

: Using the long bar to level some wood into place

: Using the long bar to level some wood into place

: Not totally sure, but could be installing lights into the container

: Now that is concentration on what you are doing

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Posted: **Mon Jul 27, 2020 9:18 am**

I am pushing the limit on pictures in a thread, so will finish Thursday here with the outside work.

: Cleanup continues with the removal of a piece of old rail

: Ready to pick up the rail with the loader

: The ever happy loader driver is waiting for the load to be ready

: Crews continue the overall clean up of the CRF

: The loader is scraping up the dirt for a project

: Looks like they are prepping a pad site at the CRF

: Continued work on the new pad site

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