Session E in Antonito Wednesday and Thursday

[Sharon Evans]

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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[Sharon Evans]

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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[Sharon Evans]

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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[Sharon Evans]

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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