Thursday Report

For Thursday, another exciting day at IRM brings us a few pictures of progress.

First, we'll take a look at the rapid progress by the Track Dept. in replacing the south wye switch.  The old switch was removed in two sections and placed on track carts.  Here's one of them:

By mid-morning, the switch looked like this:

Anyway, back in Barn 4, I was working on the roof again.  The ventilators and drip rail installed last time got a coat of primer.  I also received some new screws for attaching the running boards to the saddles, and these work better than the previous type.  Then I started applying canvas paint to both ends, where there were still some bare spots, as seen here.

But that's now a thing of the past.

After fastening down the running boards at the west end, I was able to install the grab iron that bolts onto one of the boards.  This took a little while because I had to chase threads on one of the bolts, but Tim helped by finding the right die.

John and Gerry were working on the 306; among other things, they spent some time in detective work to determine exactly how the roof was arranged before Shaker Heights.  And then there was more body and fender work.

Frank Kehoe was working most of the day on his truck project.

And another view of the new screws....

Finally, by the end of the day the switch was much more complete.   The straight route is essentially complete.

And as usual, there were other things going on, but I didn't get pictures of them.