Leverett, Bob, Bill, Hanna, Ron, and Dick spent most of the day in the shop, while DESR work was attended to by our friends.

Hanna and Bill worked on painting and then cleaning up. We’re certain Hanna is still cleaning, as she looked like a Dalmatian pup when she climbed out from touching up the tender frame. Bill did some additional primer work before we got to the main task of the day, which was assembling tender truck #2. Bob operated the deck-crane while Leverett, Ron, and Dick put the parts in place and pinned them with the newly machined pins. We got around half way through the assembly today, but will try to complete most of the work this coming Wednesday, if possible.

Bob got further along with trimming bad steel from the cab and getting one new cab side in place. The work was slow due to the amount of effort in managing heavy components. Safe to say, truck #2 is in better condition today than the day it made 470's last run, 66 years ago today!