WW&F Receives $5000 NRHS Grant for No. 9!

[John McNamara]

This is great!!

-John

[Jeff Schumaker]

This is fantastic news.

Jeff S.

[Craig "Red" Heun]

You Guys Rule!

[Robert Hale]

Congrats everyone!
Now, where will the "Russian Iron" be rolled out at?

[Jason M Lamontagne]

Why, deep in the Ural Mountains, of course!

Actually, our approach lies in the combination of specialty suppliers and processors.  I'll save the details until after we are a little farther down the road in the process.  We will be fitting the jacket ourselves.  We have No9's original, which in addition to providing templates, still retains several spots where the original Russia Iron Finish hasn't rusted away and can be seen.

I want to mention that we are not attempting to outdo the results obtained by others in this field.  For recent reproduction Russia Iron examples, the Eureka and the Inyo look great and we'll pleased to simply match the end result seen on those locomotives.  We feel the novelness in our approach lies on utilizing commercially available products and services. 

See ya
Jason

[Ed Lecuyer]

One of the qualifications that I put in the grant application is that if this process proves successful, we will be sure to share the details with the railroad preservation community - and give credit to the NRHS for helping with the funding. Once we see how it all turns out, I'm sure we'll come up with a way to fulfill this obligation.