Car 36 at Cleveland

Randy Anderson sent me a number of photos of car 36 soon after it arrived at Cleveland, and was being overhauled at the Cleveland RTA's main shop.  These pictures were taken by Dan Collins, who was a line supervisor for the RTA at that time, and is since retired.  The date is June 11, 2003, about a month before it was put into service for a day or two on the RTA.

The man on the left in this picture is our old friend Tim O'Donnell, whom I met when he was working for Gerry Brookins back in the 70's.  The others I wouldn't know.

And one can only guess what these guys had to say when they started looking into this 101-year old technology, after maintaining modern equipment for a living.

The shop at Cleveland seems to have slightly better facilities than we do in Barn 4.  In the photo at the top, notice the nice elevators that lift a truck straight up, with or without a car on it, and the turntables for easily moving trucks from one track to another.  Your tax dollars at work, I guess.

Here Tim seems to be lubricating the axle cap bearing surfaces by hand.  The personal touch always helps, I believe.

Here are a couple of views of the motor truck and the body bolster, with the kingpin.  This is definitely the original motor truck, the same one which is now under the car.