- Two tank cars located in Antonito were painted with the highly specialized ACROLON multipart paint - usually a marine finish. The surface is so hard that if any over paint is to be applied after a period of 60 days the surface must be abraded - in this case using #3 steel wool - E3VERYWHERE any paint is expected to be placed and wanted to stay! Here a team member is scraping within the new stencils. Hard work.
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GRAMPS
by Ed Lowrance » Sat May 23, 2015 3:09 pm
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- The Gramps stencil was so large it was made in two parts - on the left are just a few of the many reporting marks many in yellow. Again every letter painted had first to have the black surface abraded, then primed with white paint so the final yellow paint would have its true color
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- The car stenciling was more complicated than any other car ever done by a Friends crew - 4 people working hard 5 days and it is not quite finished. Tem leader Valley Lowrance has some final touchup to do on Monday of Work session B.
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- The stenciling team even found time to prepare and stencil one side of cook car 053
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- Just in from a team member - Their smiling faces - well pleased with themselves.
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- Housed on CRF track 4 is Caboose 0579 - in for extensive work. Roof leaks had damaged several windows and the framing below them. You saw the partially repaired roof in a side shot of the GRAMPS tank car earlier. Also a wheel set was damaged and needed replacement - the work was hard and dirty but went well.
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- Another view of the truck replacement work
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- Our newly repaired antique floor jack in service - it is our heaviest ground lifter
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- Acting on a Marvin request the brake rigging is getting a bit of reshaping - Neat Father and Son!
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Re: GRAMPS
by John Cole » Sat May 23, 2015 9:35 pm
There is nothing like working on the 12" to the foot scale, the big problem is that the parts are so much heavier and dirty compaired to those plastic models that come out of a box. 
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Re: GRAMPS
by John Cole » Sat May 23, 2015 9:38 pm
Looks like Ed was on stilts or on the scissor lift to get a couple of those shots.
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Re: GRAMPS
by Fred L. Kuhns » Sun May 24, 2015 11:00 am
ED, Thanks for all the great pictures and verbal information about each project. Looking forward to seeing the tank cars on a photo freight . The car storage building with all the trim appears to be finished but better yet is the protection provided to museums rolling stock. Know that much progress was made on the wheel sets, all the different steps in building takes a great deal of time and effort. Again thanks goes out to the great meals crew. Fred Kuhns
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Re: GRAMPS
by Tim Tennant » Thu May 28, 2015 1:47 pm
Excellent job! Pretty sweet! That car sure provides the WOW factor now!!!!
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Re: GRAMPS
by Craig Kumler » Thu May 28, 2015 2:07 pm
A great job Cris and crew and the stenciling team!
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Re: GRAMPS
by John Cole » Thu May 28, 2015 11:13 pm
YES! Valley Lowrance and her stenciling team REALLY outdid themselves on that job, now how are they gonna top that one? 
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