TCDA No. 65 (Reefer) - Official Work Thread

[James Patten]

 Crew lunch at Red's - we'll never be short volunteers for that trip...... 

Only if the crew can jump to the head of the line - otherwise the return trip will be delayed (long lines at Reds).

[Jason M Lamontagne]

Amazing timing setting the camara to automatic and tossing it in the air like that.

[John Kokas]

Actually photos were taken by the local NSA drone ......

[Glenn Byron]

These may not be related, but one part of the listing is spelled "Turner Centre".  Take a look and decide.

http://maine.craigslist.org/atq/4568363372.html

[Brendan Barry]

New Wiscasset waterfront diorama installed this year.





Look around the inside.















Outside



Fuzzy Maine Eastern Wiscasset Flyer parked on the other side of RT 1.

[Stewart "Start" Rhine]

Good shots B.  Note that lighting has been installed in the display module in the south end of the car.  Stephen Hussar donated the lighting system when car 65 was on display the Big E Show in W. Springfield, MA in January.  The set up was reconfigured for the new display module when it was installed in Wiscasset.  Steve Zuppa installed the light strips and Frank Sprague (Spragues Lobster) arranged for us to have electric.   We've heard good comments about the lights from people who have visited the car in the evening or on cloudy days. 

[Brendan Barry]

Car 65 returned for the winter today.

[Mike Fox]

Really going to make use of the car barn..

[Paul Uhland]

Car barn and coming roundhouse action will see lots more switching moves, might need a yardmaster.  
BTW, what are those small logs on work cart for?

[Brendan Barry]

65 was jacked up Saturday and the south truck rolled out for a wheelset change. 65 will see it's first trip outside yard limits in almost four years during the upcoming photo excursion on Friday.

[Dwight Winkley]

Paul, Per your Oct. 25, 2015 post.Small logs on push cart are for locomotive firewood.  dwight

[Jeff Schumaker]

Question - when is #65 getting a roofwalk attached?

Jeff S.

[Stewart "Start" Rhine]

Jeff,

There are many things we would like to do to the car, a few jobs:

- Install brakes with brake staff and rooftop brake wheel.
- Add stirrup steps under the ladders.
- Put cut levers on both ends.
- Build the roof walk.

The problem:

As long as the car is being trucked to Wiscasset and back we can not put anything on that will catch overhead wires or hit the trailer deck when the car is loaded/unloaded. Clearance is very close for the trucks and carbody and everything listed would cause problems.  We are stuck with the current set up.

[Philip Marshall]

I had also wanted to ask about the absence of brakes, cut levers, stirrup steps, and roof walk, because the dairy car (as impressive as it is) doesn't look quite right without them. I hadn't considered the issue of clearance and safety in transport, but that makes sense. Thank you Stewart for answering my question before I even asked it.

[John Kokas]

Then maybe the solution is to have two dairy cars, one for over the rails and one for over the road.  But not a priority at this time, just a future project.