In our shops, Peter took on the lion's share of work today and accomplished a great deal with assistance from Hanna and Dick Glueck. Paul V.S. continued the labor of moving earth to seal down the west side of our building before the onslaught of winter. The cab is probably 80% stripped of paint and ready to be attacked by needle scalers. There are some areas we haven't been able to reach with the stripper, but we'll get them soon enough. Peter Hanna, and to a lesser extent Dick, worked to get the sheet metal plates off in the back of the smokebox. Peter did an amazing job of cleaning debris off the bottom as well. We can now see the superheater tubes as well as the rest of the flues, etc.