Today was mostly spent painting various parts of the 36. At least I hope it was the 36. The last of the numbers had mysteriously vanished, so I just had to make my best guess as to which car to work on.
Here we are looking at a second coat of brown primer on the letterboard and upper siding for the entire length of the car. Saturday is supposed to be even warmer, so I plan to put on a first coat of the finish blue.
While I had the primer out, I also did a little work on the 319. Some parts of the truss rod had been cleaned off a couple of years ago, while it was in Barn 2. I cleaned off the surface rust with a chain and painted it with brown primer also.
And then later, I put some body filler on parts of the lower siding, and then extended the second primer for about four sectors. The details are less than exciting, but the bottom line is that it's getting closer to being completely repainted. The goal, of course, is to have the car completely repainted and lettered for the Trolley Pageant next year, celebrating IRM's 60th Anniversary.
And it was a nice day for a stroll out to 14 to check on the 321 and collect a couple of parts. As we gaze out over this assortment of cars and locomotives, wouldn't it be nice if we had a sturdy new building to protect everything from the weather? You can help!
Randal,
ReplyDeleteIf you are having an identity crisis about that Interurban you can always scrape some paint from over the doors; the car number is almost always found up there.
Most likely you will find it in an older style of lettering.
The Cleveland era did save the cars but I do not think it did much good for them otherwise. Weren't you one of the crew that went to Connecticut to change out a truck that ended up under the wrong car?
Ted Miles
Ted,
ReplyDeleteI think you have to look at the whole picture. Without Brookins the cars wouldn't be here. However, some of the things done in Cleveland are a bit puzzling.
The truck swap you mention was not by accident, it was to switch the "good" motors from the 36 to the car that is now at Warehouse Point, so that car could operate on the RTA. The idea was then to rebuild the other motors, which was done, but nothing was ever put back where it should have been before the auction.
Randy, Frank and a whole host of others went to CT to do the swap the trucks back, which also included a change of center bearing.
Randal,
ReplyDeleteIf you aren't sure if you have 36, a check of 36's photo gallery on the IRM site, photo 3 of 7 shows that the car number is also on the inside.
W. Stafa
Gee, thanks, Walt! Why didn't I think of that? Seriously, if only you could be around more often, it would be a big help.
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