It was Jim Armstrong and Dick Glueck in the shop today, joined by Leverett Fernald. We conducted several tours and worked until around 3:30PM.

Jim and Dick painted and primed most of the morning. The truck frame is done, the brake hangers are done, the brake cylinder is done. Leverett did some metal work and, joined by Alden Burns, the four of us put the equalizer bars together and those too, were painted. In addition, I needle scaled a couple of truck parts, which Jim primed.

We consolidated all the #1 truck springs, spring cups, brake parts, etc. Reassembly should go pretty rapidly with all that material ready to go.

On Sunday the 20th, Leverett and Jim will be back to do additional work. We expect Ramsey Company on Wednesday of the coming week to do certain work on the tender frame. Ramsey is also going to turn a new drawbar pin for the tender when that work is completed.

Photos from today:

Bill Alexander's tender decking almost completely bolted down with angle irons painted and bolted down.
Remnants of the old tender drawbar pins which L.F. cut out with some fire control assistance from Ron Jenkins. These fragments remind me of how heavy that whole beast was!
Newly cut tender pin holes. Nice shot!
Painted brake cylinder barrel and tender frame.

If enough volunteers show next weekend, Bob has promised we'll likely rivet the cab. Hopefully the truck assembly can commence at that time, if not partially before.