Thursday 27th - The Race is on

 The title says 'The Race is on, well as March 5th is just around the corner there is much to do. I failed to do a head count today, but all teams were well supported.

Photo by Gerry B.

Rbr 1672 has thrown a few repairs at us, it will be very much needed for the new operating season. Here Bob S. and myself are attending to a fairly straight forward repair to a floor support. We have developed the way we do this, which is a very strong repair.

photo by Gerry B.

On the adjacent road in the barn, Bryan is fitting radiators to BCK 21092.

Meanwhile in the paintshop, Dave is attending to 5042 .......

Dave spent the day vacuuming and then painting etch primer on the Cotswold side of the roof. The Malvern side had been painted by Bob M. on Tuesday. The only remaining area is at the north end between the filler pipes.

Photo by Dave C.

photo by Dave C.

Still with 5042, at the south end Phil completed the preparation work started by Roger on Tuesday, including patching the rain cover over the entrance.+

Photo by Dave C.

Jeff cleaned up most of the north end and made a start on the undercoating.

Bob K. made a start with the freshening up of the three vestibules in 5042, repainting the ceiling and one of the walls in the north end one.

Back to the barn  on 1672 .... Richard is re-fitting the batteries. Richards 1 and 2 very kindly removed them to give us welding access. You will note the woolly hat .... it was very cold in .... The Barn.

Bob S. is re-fitting the step and floors woods.

Outside, a bit of a shunt to get these bogies into the barn for maintenance.

This proved very useful, as 34929  ( you've heard that number somewhere before ) ended up over the pit. This provided a great opportunity to remove a stubborn steam heat connecting elbow, using a fair amount of heat provided by Messrs Oxy and Acetylene.

Back indoors Ken R. is servicing a vacuum brake cylinder.

John V. and Gerry B. seen here moving on with our replacement oil bund storage cage. 

Finally Dave H. doing his favourite job, sanding and preparing all manner of wood mouldings.