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Volunteers / Re: February 2019 Work Reports

« on: February 25, 2019, 09:11:02 PM »

oh, last i saw there was only draft gear on the car.  Super cool to see it moving along.  Any idea how much longer till we have a functional flatcar?

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Museum Discussion / Getting the passenger car back inside

« on: February 25, 2019, 09:09:03 PM »

I have been sitting here, thinking.  Now that's normally a dangerous thing to be happening.  No idea if this is one of those times.  In this case i was thinking about ways to get the passenger car back to being stored inside.  There is a lot of space on the middle car barn track between the box and the railbus. If we took the railbus off the tracks and stuck it between the different tracks (kind of like that piece of machinery next to the flanger) could the stuff the caboose, box, and passenger car all on that track?

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Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad / Re: SR&RL tenders still kicking around?

« on: February 25, 2019, 08:40:31 PM »

Is there any effort to save them? or are they beyond saving at this point.

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Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad / Re: SR&RL tenders still kicking around?

« on: February 25, 2019, 04:10:26 PM »

Oh sweet!  I can’t seem to find anything online about them, know of any articles or pictures?

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Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad / SR&RL tenders still kicking around?

« on: February 25, 2019, 12:12:53 PM »

I remember reading that one or two of the sandy river’s tenders were still around somewhere. I seem to remember it being up at the Phillips museum, Unfornatult I can’t find that article again. Any one know if this is true?

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Volunteers / Re: February 2019 Work Reports

« on: February 25, 2019, 11:21:31 AM »

What is left to do on the flatcar? Besides trucks, decking, couplers and brakes.

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Volunteers / Re: February 2019 Work Reports

« on: February 21, 2019, 11:34:38 AM »

I may have just won the award for ugliest thing to ever be seen on the railroad.  That sweatshirt and hat are painful to look at. Haha

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Volunteers / Re: February 2019 Work Reports

« on: February 20, 2019, 09:54:43 AM »

I’m planning on coming up for this weekend, any tools I should bring?

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General Discussion / Re: Who Am I? or, Let's Introduce Ourselves

« on: February 10, 2019, 05:34:56 PM »

Do you have to be a paying member to see that page?

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General Discussion / Re: Who Am I? or, Let's Introduce Ourselves

« on: February 10, 2019, 12:16:34 PM »

Hi Bill,

I would love to come up for a weekend sometime. I am free basically every weekend, so exit time there are people going out to work hit me up!  As for the lodging, how inexpensive is inexpensive?  I’m currently trying to save my pennies.

Hope to become one of the crew
-Brian

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General Discussion / Re: Who Am I? or, Let's Introduce Ourselves

« on: February 10, 2019, 12:45:58 AM »

Hello everybody, I’m Brian Strait.  You probably want to know a little bit about me, I’m a 21 year old from Mass with a life long addiction to railroading.  My interested tends to be anything weird, odd or just old.  I fell in love with maine two foot because of the sr&rl.  I think that their tender locomotives are some of the best looking engines ever made.  Reading up on maine two foot I learned about the wwf and the preservation effort you have going on here.  For a while I have wanted to preservation and you seem like a wonderful group of people!

I tend to really like working outside, and the pictures I have seen of the mountain extension seem right up my alley.  I would love to come up some time to help work on stuff and learn about all your old crap!