I do not have any input on what was done on the Saturday.
Sunday May 23, small group on site. We had about 30 visitors, and a
visit by a group driving old cars.
Brian Kelsey painted the combine belt rails yellow and later on will
put stripes under the roof edge. He also painted the grey on 6591 on the
cab sides and on the RH engine hood and the front. Now looking a little
less disgraceful. Ross solicited a donation of a gallon of the proper
purple paint for the top of the engine, from Bytown RR society. Brian
also painted the patches on the roof of 5019 so it is all the same color
as viewed from William street.
Doug Kolish and his son's Daniel and Anthony painted the west side of
the RPO and the east side of 5018 with black paint below the belt rail,
which camouflages the rust holes. Stripes will be added to match the
dental car.
Allan put up the display case for the G scale diesel locomotive, this
was all trashed a year ago so he is starting over. He also has mounted
the case for the steam loco and has installed display lighting for these
cases which turn on with a
motion detector. Very impressive.
Mike Jewett worked on the Wooding's railcar. As gas will not flow
uphill, he installed a donated used electric fuel pump on Thursday, car
now runs fine. Al donated a fuel filter which has yet to be installed.
Brian returned the window for Nolan's with new glass installed. Ross
installed the window. He also measured for the wood required for the
bench seats and the door trim and will get this next week to his shop.
The boards
will be glued up in his press clamps, thicknessed and cut to rough size,
then delivered to Nolan's and Bill can install them. Later Ross will
make a liner for the coal bunker and install the flue pipe for the stove. He
will fabricate a proper ceiling thimble for where the pipe passes thru
the ceiling as these are no longer available.
Gee spent the day on Sunday removing weeds and trash from under the
steps of the house, and cutting several button weeds in the flower gardens.
Ross moved a pile of trash from the house to a pile next to the back of
the container. When we have enough we will take it to the dump. One load
of artifacts was moved from the express room to the house, we can
now get the door to the express room closed without having to climb over
many objects.
John weir is installing Lexan panels on the outside of the dental car to
keep vandals from breaking the windows. At the same time he is doing
maintenance on the sash.
George Margita was consulting with John for the railfest. BTW John
solicited a nice donation from Rideau Lumber towards this event.
Bill repaired the damage to the red trailer inflicted by the latest
round of vandalism. I was told that the mate to this trailer was
destroyed by vandals several years ago, the frame is still somewhere,
maybe as time and resources permit we should re-construct it. We are now
ready to give rides to visitors on the front track. Doug and others will
have to get the back track to the shed re-laid before the August event
so we can use this track with a handcar.
Allan continued to work on his loco display.
Tom Caine scraped and primed the air tank on the big air compressor. We
have to get the water pump back from Jason Marshall. We are now
convinced he also has the registration log book and the gift of deed
forms at home and these must also be returned.
Brian lettered the draft gear inspection on the end of the dental car,
the end the public first sees. He also painted the grey around the
lettering on the RHS of 6591 and painted the cab numbers on 1112 and
started the gold stripes on the RPO.
Doug K was seen painting stripes on cars on Friday.
The display case on loan from Tom Clark was moved into the gift shop as
well as the round shirt hanger. The gift shop operator should be advised
that anything in there she does not need will be stored, just put them
in the MWR and we will put them away.
On Friday Ross and Gerry Doris worked in the house. We removed the Howie
partition walls and the wiring in them. The center wall supporting the
floor above which has the library shelving was reinforced and passages
created between the future shelves that will be moved from the express
office. We will extend this wall to the front of the house to support
the office area floors above, and later I will install a beam and
jackpost in the front of the RHS. We have about 2 hours work left to
finish framing the new wall beside the stair case and the wall with door
opening at the bottom of the stairs, then we can remove the last
partition wall. New lighting between the shelf rows is almost completed.
Then we can drywall the partition down the center of the house to secure
the archival storage area. Once the alarm is installed we can start
moving the collection, about 3 weeks from now.
Doug and Bill removed the rotted out platform at the red CP caboose and
level out the ground. Bill then assisted with the walls in the house.
Next Thursday I need some help, muscle, we have to dismantle that
mountain railroad model, and we have to move some desks out of the left
side of the house. Tom Clark will come over and open the lock on a
filing cabinet so we can move it and an empty one to the storage area
over the express room. BTW Bill has the lock on this door working now,
some part had moved inside the lock and he put it back in place.
Ross Robinson
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