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Update June 22, 2008

its been a couple of weeks since we last did an update, mostly because I was just plugging along doing the same ol’ same ol’ and didnt think anyone would be interested.

This week we made some progress.

First, a bit off topic, we need to congratulate the guys from Electric land that got the Electroliner out and washed her up for display. The train looks great!

http://www.irm.org/gallery/album114

 second we got some progress made on the RDC. The latest writings we found thanks to Barb Lanphier pretty much confirm the cars number is really 9934, not 9933. We got one side of the pullover seats disassembled, and discovered they were all welded shut, so we fixed that. Then of course we needed to do the lubrication and other fixing to get them to work again, and true to most railroad constructions, they work fine with just a little attention. Once we have the chance to reassemble one side w ewill do the other as well. All upholstery is in decent shape so the seats should be usable soon.

http://www.irm.org/gallery/CNW9933/abc

Exterior is less purple than before, but it will be a loooong summer until we get it all off. Cant rush it because under the purple and silver paint is a layer ot white and then in spots another layer of purple but in the end its all stainless.

http://www.irm.org/gallery/CNW9933/abh progress

 http://www.irm.org/gallery/CNW9933/abg stainless shine showing through a bit

 on the other streamliner front, we are still stalled on electricity, so we still are hoping for a cool summer! We have been moving forward with some of the displays.

BLE 25 is done and waiting to go into its heavyweight train location. We have plans to put out a decent diverse Pullman green passenger train for diesel weekend, so stay tuned and come out for the show!

DMIR 84 windows are all in thanks to Chucks persistence.

Galt House is almost done, and as soon as we can get it switched into position we will be ready to open it for visitors for the first time in three years! Another forward step we hope. It will allow up to have a complete set of heavyweight cars as a walk through with ATSF loungs 1534 and ATSF combuine 2544, plus visits with Ely when Shelly is out.

have a great summer! come out and visit as often as you can , and feel more than free to donate to your favorite passenger car