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Mt. Shasta Rent a caboose for the night to sleep in......
https://rrpark.com/
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San Jose History Park takes the trolley car outside the park on some days. A free ride short but fun.
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In these you can see another spot where the tracks are right next to where the horses drive down the roadway.
Still Old Sacramento, CA
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The teamsters know the schedule of the steam train and make sure to avoid the time when they will move along the tracks about 10 feet from the horses.
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Old Sacramento, CA
Here I go again with horses in a wagon train with a train......
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Right near the Nebraska state line....Two different trains.
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After the 12 doors left it was time to get the Number 2 radiator hood painted. Any painting on the SP 9010 is completed by Howard and he is very good at what he does.
The locomotive was removed from the car barn to provide room for the scissor lift to move to the far side by the wall.
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Rest Area along I-40 they were HUGE!!!
Yes
No, not a train but a train of these was together.
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Here are the last 8 doors all loaded into the bed of another volunteers truck.
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Getting them down to the metal is easier with the air hammer.
Then all of a sudden it wasn't!
Geez!!! I blow out two needle guns and now one more of these hoses. I also am always looking for air horses due to so many others also working with these air horses in other work areas.
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Now the doors are heading down to the end of the car barn to be cleaned up better before they are loaded into a truck and taken to the sand blast shop.
Howard made numbers (L20 here) for each door to show where the door goes when it is returned to its correct spot on the radiator hood. Small...
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We recycle a lot of things here this sign for example!
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Earned a new tool!
Air Hammer does the trick for taking off the 54 year old insulation on the inside of the radiator doors. 12 doors and all need cleaning. One great part of this is Howard has decided to send the doors out after they are cleaned to a shop with a large sand blaster area then...
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Water pipes that belong on the engine down to be cleaned and painted.
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