We had another two productive days in Guelph. Read all about it here:

http://www.trainweb.org/j.dimech/journal/080624-1.html

Also,

Unfortunately, at the moment it appears that with our current budget, we may not have enough money to give the cab and tender the work they really need, i.e., the tender may not even be sandblasted, and the cab may not look so pretty. Of course we'll take care of essential items, like patching up that gaping hole in the coal bunker, but those areas won't look overly pretty unless we can raise a great deal more money (in other words if you would like to do something about it, you're more then welcome to make a donation to the project through the Guelph Civic Museum).

http://guelpharts.ca/steamlocomotive616 ... hp?sid=311

Of course, the exterior of the tender tank isn't in that bad condition as we suspect that it was needle-gunned at some point in the last twenty years (not like 6218's which has twenty or so coats of paint on it), so we could probably work with what's there, and the cab won't be a very interesting place either. We will have to examine these issues later on, as right now, our focus is removing the asbestos from the boiler and putting on a new jacket.

Cheer's

Joe

Joe,
Thanks for posting the update, you guys have been busy! I do have a question for you regarding 6167. Are you going to be repairing and reinstalling the original running board sections or are you going to be replacing them?