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Antonito session F2 day 4, 29 July

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 9:17 am

by Sharon Evans

Day 4 of session F2 was a busy one based on the pictures that I received.

: A partially painted wheel press

: The wheel press is painted

These next shots seem to show a Friends work team repacking the bearing boxes on some old freight cars.

: Not sure what type of freight car this is, but its in rough shape

: An unmarked box car

: Another of those possibly stock cars, not the sky was green in the original

: Wooden blocks and judging by the shape will be placed around the axles in the journal box

: Close up of a wooden block for the wheel axle

: Hand press under the journal box of the green car with some of the old packing on the ground

: Friend pulling out the old packing

: Taking a look to see if its all out

: Looks like the block is being inserted

: Would think this is oil being poured into the journal

: Well, well, we now know what those mop like things are, journal packing

: Working inside the journal box getting the new packing in

: Getting this new packing in place is a dirty hands job

: Close up of the journal box showing the mop and above one of the wooden blocks

: Another angle showing the new packing

: Fresh axle grease is pumped in

: In place and soaked with oil

: Looks like he is working on getting this journal box door open

: Working on it

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Re: Antonito session F2 day 4, 29 July

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 8:11 am

by Sharon Evans

Forth day of session F2 continues.
So lets gets back to MW02.

: Hood of MW02

: Using the loader to remove the hood from MW02

: Carefully with the lift and off it comes

: The hood is sat down on wooden blocks until needed

: The hood is gone and the MW02 is ready to move inside

: The front truck assembly on the MW02

: Removing the metal siding off the front of MW02

: View from the front of MW02 showing the radiator

: Overall shot of the MW02 showing the motor

: Look at the cooling lines and front frame

: Looks like the MW02 had some passengers riding around

: The MW02 is going to need a lot of work getting it back running

: More shots of the condition of the framing on MW02

Now for some other areas of work done.

: That repair to the top rail of the rider gon is now painted

: The other repaired area is also done

: Working on the brake rigging under one of the tank cars

: Using the shop press to fabricate need parts for the brake rigging

: The needed bend is placed into the rod

: Another bend and this shows how the operator uses various pieces of metal to assist

: This Friend is at the drill press working again

: Close up of his work drill what looks like a pilot hole for a larger drill bit

: The new pivot assembly before installation

: New brake hanger assembly

: Looks like they are installing a new pivot rod

: Measuring this fork assembly

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