Roof boards and doors

Today I made good use of the Rustoleum rusty metal primer that we purchased during the week. It was 80 degrees and sunny, so I toted the six 12' long 2x6's that will serve as the 205's roof boards outdoors and put a coat of primer on all of them, the sun drying the paint quickly enough to do both sides. After this was done, I used our new pad sander to sand down the previous coat of primer on the two new door leaves for the car and put a final coat of primer on those; now they're ready for Indiana Railroad orange, and then final hardware fitting and installation! The doors are shown below left. I also got to show blog reader Glenn Prow, who has helped us with Hicks Locomotive & Car Works research, through the 309 before his Take the Throttle trip. And there has been progress on Barn 11 - the roof trusses and stringers at the west end of the building are in place, as shown below right.