Lights, Camera, Action!

 I believe it's not too much of a state secret that another movie is being filmed at IRM, and this one will star the Zephyr, as usual, plus a bilevel or two.  So the advance crew was busy today.  They bring in the various materials they'll need by truck, along with various other vehicles and what not.

They set up a large heated tent over near the Schroeder Store.

And down by the depot, the carpenters are getting ready to build some scaffolding for filming.  When more details become available on what this movie will be called and so forth, you'll read it here first!  I hope.

Henry Vincent and his grandson have been making great progress on the car 36 parts in the shop.  Here we see where he has sanded down to the yellow on blue lettering, which is what we'll want to reproduce on the train door.

And then they have also stripped and primed the metal parts for the side door, which I want to have reassembled by the time the Museum opens for visitors.  Thanks, guys!!!

Jon Fenlaciki was out today; he's seen here working on the electric heaters for the 65.

 Finally, I spent the day painting the 36, since the weather was just about right.  I finished applying a first coat of the light grey on the north side of the car, and then red on the remaining parts of the #1 end.  The lower blue I can do anytime without a scaffold; the only paint remaining will be the red stripes above and below the windows.

But after taking this picture, I realized I also needed to paint the tack molding black.  That didn't take long, fortunately.

 And at the #2 end, we're essentially done.  The doors and windows on this side still need to be painted, but that will come later, probably over the summer.