They've Got Our Backs

 The big news for Thursday, from my perspective, was getting the 319 seat project into real motion.  John Sheldon has been instrumental in making this possible.  The seat backs will be recovered by the same upholsterer who did all of the seats for the 306.  They're located in Walworth, Wisc. which is right on the way home for John.  I cut out ten yards of the material we acquired a few years ago with the expert aid of Dick Lukin, and gave it to John.  I then removed five more seat backs -- it takes a while -- and helped load them into his truck.  When all six are done, they'll be put back in place.  Most of the rest of the seats in the 319 are in pretty good shape, and they will be painted as necessary.  So that's pretty exciting.

Here John is polishing up some more 306 hardware.

And he also spent much of the day painting the new walls in Barn 4, along with Tim.

Two photos by Bob Olson

Gerry worked on cleaning up one of the door motors for the 306.  He pointed out that we have two, and that's all we will need for the original configuration.  There were double doors on the left side of each platform, controlled by these door motors, and a single door on the other side, which was manual. 

And speaking of exciting, today as I walked by Steve, who was painting again, Pax suddenly started barking fiercely at me for some reason.

But he was soon brought under control.   Cave Pacem!