Saturday Roof Progress

 Saturday saw some more progress on the 453's roof, among other projects.  First, Frank Kehoe helped me move the four painted running boards from the shop onto the roof booth platform, and I appreciated the help.  That left room for painting one side of the remaining two boards.

Frank was hard at work on various truck parts for the 1754.  Here is a picture of a brake lever with a broken bushing that he had to press out.  We should mention that the Steam Dept. guys have been very helpful with rebuilding various parts of the truck.  We're very grateful for their expert assistance.

I cleaned up some more parts of the roof, such as grab irons, and then started on applying Bondo to the holes in the end of the carbody at the #1 end, which we had seen before.  This seems to be going well, but I need to find my pad sander to finish it off.

And in recycling news, it turns out that last year's calendars make an excellent base on which to mix the Bondo.  We have a large stack of them available, since of course the 2020 calendars, which were printed in late 2019, quickly became irrelevant.  But we can often find a reuse for almost anything.

And by mid-day it was warm enough for more painting on the canvas.  I went around the car with a brush and put a coat on the bottom edge, where it's tacked to the molding and where the roller just doesn't cover.

The rest of the remaining gallon went onto lower part of the roof.  We have some more paint on order so work can continue this week.

And that's it for now.