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On Saturday August 30, John Zielinski led a crew (listed below) to complete the move of the caboose and tender.

The cars are now nicely positioned along side the two passenger cars.  All that remains is cleanup of some material laying about the grounds.  To all that participated, thank you for the help.  Jockeying around 7000 pound, 39 foot long panels of track and rolling a 125,000 pound tender and 35,000 pound caboose with a forklift are no easy tasks.  Hundreds of person hours work consumed by this task, and it was accomplished safely with no more then a whole lot of sore muscles!

And thanks to A-Tool shed for the loan of the compressor.

The crew:

  • Art Randal
  • Tom Anderson
  • Phil Rule
  • Ken Middlebrook
  • Denis Murchison
  • Larry Murchison
  • John Zielinski
  • John Ezovski
  • Bill Jump
  • Jack Young

Lead truck Bowl Ring

Art Randall prepared the bowl and ring for welding.  The ring was welded into place and is now ready for transport to the trolley barn for final machining.

Front Coupler Upper Pin Hole

Art and Tom Anderson began the day by reorienting the magnetic base drill and boring bar.  Boring of the upper pin hole was then restarted.  There is still much work to be performed with this task.
 
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