11/16/2019 Work Session

Hanna spent much of her time assisting Bob by cutting and grinding pipes, to be welded into a stand for repairing the 470 cab. Here you see grinding and welding!

Here are three images of the newly acquired equipment. The first shows the DESR compressor and the NESCO compressor new to it. Double-headed compressors would be a first, I'm certain. In the distance you see Al Jenkins, a man outstanding in his field.

The deck crane was fired up and tested out. There's a lot of ice to be melted, but it appears to function well. The blue boxes and rail wheels are a bonus that happened to come with the deck crane, allowing it to operate as a hi-rail vehicle, should the need arise.

The finished tender truck wheels were measured so the journal brasses can be finished to make a close fit. You can see where Dick and Roger ground out some old braze applied by the MEC shops, some 70 years ago to fill in wear on the tender truck pedestals. This area will be filled with steel weld and ground flush by Leverett. Also, the brake beams are undergoing repair at Leverett's shop.