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| Druby Hebert vacuums debris off the floor joists of RPO X54. |
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| Don Bayer (team leader) receives window frames for RPO X54 from John Altschool. Bayer later marked the frames as to their position. |
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| Alta Berkstresser and husband George work on moving a landscape timber in the Chama yard. |
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| Bob Meckley hands a newly-finished floor board to Blake Forbes for a test fitting. Floor boards on the Jordan spreader need to be cut to go around numerous pipes and fittings. |
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| Bob Reib and George Berkstresser position a new landscaping timber near the Chama Depot. |
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| Pile driver OB as it sits in the CRF in Antonito after being moved from Colorado Springs. Restoration and reconstruction are nearly complete. |
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| D&RGW idler car 6008 on the west side of the Antonito CRF awaiting repairs, a fresh coat of paint and re-lettering before joining pile driver OB. |
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| Blake Forbes mounts a wood bit in his drill on the Jordan spreader. |
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| John Altschool, Dellon Blanton and Bob Reib, having removed steel panels from
the side of RPO X54, turn to get tools to remove underside brake rigging from
the car. |
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| John Altschool watches as Dellon Blanton and Bob Reib (hidden, yellow hard hat)
work on sawing off the undersized pressurized air pipe under RPO X54. |
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| Gene Anderson observes while Blake Forbes fits a new floorboard to the Jordan spreader. |
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| Safety coordinator Jim Poston nails a new piece of flooring to the Jordan
Spreader while Mark Valerius (team leader) looks on. |
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| The stove is in place in caboose 05635, awaiting an exhaust stack. |
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| Jim O’Keefe assembles a picnic table for the Antonito CRF. |
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| Caboose 05635 sports a newly installed exhaust stack with tee cap for its stove. |
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| In caboose 05635, the interior floor has been finished and the stove installation completed. The chair hanging from the ceiling is temporarily stored to get it out of the way during floor coating. |
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| Gene Anderson and Bob Meckley get ready to adjust a wing on the Jordan spreader. |
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| Don Bayer (team leader) surveys a wooden brace mounted atop RPO X54, which is undergoing restoration. |
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| Jean Lee waters additions to the landscaping of the Chama yard. |
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| Ron Lira watches from the roof of RPO X54 as Don Bayer (team leader) repositions a stepladder. Druby Hebert tends to another part of the roof of the car. |
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| Ron Lira trims the ends of the canopy uprights in preparation for constructing the plywood roof over one side of RPO X54. |
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| Hebert Druby, Bob Reib and Mike Shirk work on disassembling a brake-wheel mechanism on RPO X54. |
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| Keith Doyle looks on while Marshall Smith, Don Bayer (team leader) and Alan Robson maneuver a sheet of plywood up to the roof of RPO X54 where Ron Lira and Bob Reib are ready to position it on the previously assembled frame. Mike Shirk carries tools while Dellon Blanton starts cutting off a handrail mount. |
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| Charlie Irvin repacking axles on pile driver OB trucks. |
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| Bob Markley, Gene Anderson and Mark Valerius (team leader) help push a wall section up over the top of steel angle braces while on the car Jim Poston, Blake Forbes and Mike Shirk add muscle to the move. |
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| Standing on the floor of the Jordan spreader, Jim Poston and Blake Forbes help Mark Valerius (team leader), Gene Gordon and Bob Markley raise the left-side wall of the spreader over the car’s external bracing. |
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| Ron Lira, Dillon Blanton, Don Bayer, Bob Reib and Alan Robson inspect the floor bracing of RPO X54. |
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| Idler Car 6008 arrives in Antonito from Chama. |
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| Ron Lira saws off some projecting bolts while Bob Reid braces the affected door sill on RPO X54. |
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| Marshall Smith, Keith Doyle, Alan Robson, Bob Reid and Ron Lira raise the last of the new lateral wall braces in RPO X54. The original wood of the car is so rotten that without stout braces it is likely that the walls and roof would collapse on the volunteers. |
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| Geof Gordon and Jim Poston loosen a plumbing joint on the plumbing tower of the Jordan spreader. |
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| Don Bayer (team leader) examines the undercarriage of RPO X54 while Dellon Blanton works to remove outside sheathing from the car. |
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| Don Bayer (team leader) of the RPO X54 restoration crew reviews his lumber requirements with Ed Lowrance, leader of Work Session A. |
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| Geof Gordon and Jim Poston work on disassembling the control plumbing of the Jordan spreader. |
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