ASR held another productive work session at the W.3rd St. roundhouse this past Saturday.

Volunteers
The following volunteers attended Saturday’s work session:
•Rick Owings
•Jake Crayton
•Chris Howell
•Greg Brown
•Brian Dembinski
•Brian Tusin
•Perry Krzyzaniak
•Paul Volosyn
•Eric Kapusta
•Gordon Hartschuh
•Forrest Nace
•Tiffany Saultz
•Rob Gardner
Of the thirteen volunteers, we welcomed two new volunteers this week; Brian Dembinski and Tiffany Saultz. We salute all of our volunteers!

Work Report
This weekend, work continued inside the firebox. Perry Krzyzaniak and Eric Kapusta continued to lead the dirty, dusty work inside the firebox. Much of the side sheets and syphons are now wire wheeled. Perry expects one more work session will continue preparing the interior of the firebox for gridding for the UT tests.

Jake Crayton, Chris Howell and Tiffany Saultz continued cleaning the exterior of the boiler in preparation for the rust converting primer. They also continued removing insulation from around the superheater feed pipe cavity in the front of the smokebox.

Brian Tusin and contractor Jason Sobczynski machined approximately 20 each Teflon gaskets for the washout plugs.

Gordon Hartschuh, Paul Volosyn, Greg Brown and Forrest Nance continued lapping washout plug seats.
Drayton Blackgrove from Lynch Pin Productions visited the work session and shot numerous video clips of volunteers hard at work on 2100 as well as interviewed most volunteers for an upcoming promotional video showing how critical and key our volunteers are to the ongoing progress with the restoration of 2100.

Upcoming Work Session
The following tasks are planned for the next work session on February 27 including:
•Apply the rust converting primer on the exterior of the firebox and boiler shell
•Finish wire wheeling of the interior of the firebox and start laying out grid lines for the UT test
•Finish machining the remaining Teflon washout plug gaskets
•Machine two (2) more lapping tools for the medium sized gaskets
•Start lapping the medium size washout plug gasket seats
Upcoming Events
•The next work session is Saturday, February 27, 2016 and starts at 9 am at the W.3rd St. roundhouse in Cleveland, OH.
•Don’t forget to come ready to sign and complete a volunteer waiver and if you are not a member already, come prepared to fill out a membership form and be able to pay your membership dues at that time.
•The first ASR safety training class will be held on Saturday, March 5. Expect this to be a whole day class at Marion Union Station Railroad depot.
Address:
Marion Union Station
532 W Center St
Marion, OH 43302
Arrive by 9:30 AM to get signed in
Class will start at 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM EST
Lunch will be at the Shovel Restaurant next door to the station.

Sincerely,

Rob Gardner
ASR Fundraising Chairman