new topic to jump it back up to the top <Grin>Sat. 22 Oct 05Big turnout today, We jumped right in to work, and yet more needle scaleing of truck 4, repainting the spring pockets, and opening all the drainage holes in the frame of the spring pockets and body of the trucks. The sand blasting crew that sandblasteded the tender, showed up to clean up some last areas on the oil bunker, and those areas were then painted with rust bullet. In the office, all of our part controll sheets are being scaned in to the database, allowing faster access to where and what has been done in the past. This helps a lot, especillay now that reassembly, has started on the trucks. Today we finshed and aired up 3 of the tenders brake cylinders, a fourth has been disassembled, painting has begun on areas that will be inacessable after reassembly. All the brake cylinders are in very good condition with only one that had mild pitting, the pitting was cleaned up with our Hone. All the cylinders opened to date have had no rust, just 45 year old grease and dust....Much was accomplished, and our goal to reassemble the tender this year looks secure.more to come,Gunns

Hi all.Wends. 26 Oct 05,Brake work today, finshed up another Cylinder,So we now have only 4 left to do.here are the finshed Cylinders.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevin ... e?full=1we also open two more cylinders to check condition and spray them with solvent for the next work day.Here are the ones left to do,http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agf?full=1all but one Cylinder opened so far, have been in Very good (look new except fo the 49 year old grease) One cylinder had some pitting and corrosion but the hone cleaned it up. We think the pitted one may have been next to the blow down valve, and was the recipent of the steam wash.This is the Brake Cart, with the tools we use for the cylinder restoration.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevin ... g?full=1In the Office they have started the sorting and filing of our drawings, a PDF file is also planed with a searchable index.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevin ... full=1This is the oil bunker fill hatch, one of twohttp://www.railimages.com/gallery/ke ... l=1Another photo of the hatch.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevin ... gj?full=1A lok down at the tender trucks from on top of the oil bunkerhttp://www.railimages.com/gallery ... full=1Used cups from the brake cylinders.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevin ... ?full=1the new steps installed on the tender.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevin ... full=1More photos,Here is the buffer block from the tenderhttp://www.railimages.com/gallery ... full=1Here is the buffer springhttp://www.railimages.com/gallery ... full=1More to come,GunnsThe Wife, me, and the girlfriend (in the background)

Hi All,2 Nov 05Today saw the refurbishment of another brake cylinder. that makes 5 of 8 compleated, 3 to go. Of the 5 compleated 3 have passed the air test (holding the requiered pressure for the requiered time) and have been painted, and await remounting to the truck. One of our standard bench marks is that we dont paint it untill it is ready for reinstallation. Also paint is beeing applyed to the areas that will be covered by the reinstallation of large parts. In the office all the drawings have been sorted and filed, also they have been scaned and are beeing made up in to a document that we can burn on to a CD Rom or DVD. More to come,Gunns

5 Nov 05Big crew today.Two more cyls for the tender brakes done to day, that makes seven done one to go.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevin ... full=1Also the brake beam was finshed today,http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/agr?full=1,And receved fine adjustment,http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/ags?full=1,And installed.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevin ... full=1Work on truck 4 continues, removing paint from stuff that shouldnt have paint, and reinstalling refurbished parts.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevin ... full=1Also all the tender wheels were gauged today, with good results, most wheelsets were installed new in the last shoping.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevin ... ull=1After the work session I crawled into the furnace. Here is the inside of a tube, with a superheater in it.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevin ... full=1more to come,Gunns