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Author:  Jim Poston [ Mon Apr 06, 2015 8:43 am ]
Post subject:  Locomotive 169 - The 'Boots Group' :-)

The self-named 'Boots Group' - Lee Conner, Ellen Dodds, and Jim Poston this time around - volunteered at the Alamosa (CO) pavilion last Saturday. We continued our post-winter clean-up, hosted a few visitors, and pulled one of the B-1's clerestory window screens for inspection and replacement.

Tom Fitzgerald and wife visited as well, taking more inside and outside pictures of the B-1, plus examining some of the colors the car had been painted throughout its life.

Thanks for reading, and now - on to the photos!

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File comment: A close-up of an in-place clerestory screen. Paint and roofing tar(?) will have to be removed before the screens can be replaced and the windows made operable.
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File comment: The removed screen. We noted how fine the screen openings were, plus the mortised corners of the frame.
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File comment: Lee and Ellen removing the clerestory screen (folding ladder and job box donated by Tom and Hilde Simco).
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Author:  Les Beckman [ Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:23 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Locomotive 169 - The 'Boots Group' :-)

Jim -

Thanks for info and photos. Keep us posted on progress as best you can.


Les

Author:  Jim Poston [ Tue Apr 07, 2015 7:40 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Locomotive 169 - The 'Boots Group' :-)

Will do, Les. We'll be at the pavilion on Saturday, May 2 to do more work.

-Jim

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