Drying Out

IRM had some heavy rains over the past few days, and there's still a few extra swamps around, but we're drying out and as far as I know, there's no damage.

The birds, at least, are enjoying themselves. Spot the red-wing blackbird.

First of all, some exciting news from over the weekend! I couldn't be there because my daughter was graduating from college, but lots happened anyway. (Or maybe because....) After the Car Dept. team finished replacing a broken truck spring on the 415 on Saturday, they had time to bring the 36 over and swap trucks. The 303's motor truck came out from under the 36, and a spare 4000 trailer truck went in to hold the car up.

On Sunday the rebuilt motors were put back into the truck, as seen dimly here. I think we're actually ahead of schedule, so thanks to everybody who helped! That includes Stan, Joel, Ray Weart, Dan, Greg K., Warren, and Nick. As mentioned before, we'll be going out to Warehouse Point on the weekend of June 19th to swap trucks under the 303.

And if everybody's interest in the Trolleyville cars wasn't flagging, who knows what might have been accomplished? :)

I started by vacuuming out the 319 as best I could. I finished putting a first coat of finish black on the remaining window sills, then started painting the floor with a first coat of primer. This is pretty close to the finish brown, which will be the same as we have on the 308 and 309.






Before we leave, let's see what Tim Peters has been accomplishing. He has spray painted the numbers on the 1268 and outlined them by hand, as seen here. He is also nearly finished with the interior. He plans to have the car in service by Memorial Day, at which point it will probably move back to Barn 8 to free up a slot in Barn 4. It looks great!