EBT Tourist vs. In Service Paint-part 2
| September 17, 2014 08:08PM |
Here are a few more photos of the EBT trips and the repaints.
I didn't take a before photo, but this is No. 14 after a long day of working to restore her look to "In Service". If you look carefully, you can see some of our "touch-up".
In this photo, No. 14 is southbound into Orbisonia in the fog.
We didn't do only locomotives. The timelessness and complete picture of places like the EBT exists because all the elements are there. We talked Stanley into letting us drag the Chevy box truck the EBT had purchased in the 50's out of it's stall. The truck was kept in a shed attached to the roundhouse. Dave and I had to move a mountain of junk that had accumulated around and inside the truck. It had not been driven or out of it's shed since the early 70's. As I recall, it had a 1972 registration in the glovebox. It didn't run and had a barely functioning hand brake. In this picture EBT engineer Tom Holder and I watch as a backhoe pulls the truck out in the open.
The Chevy gets a bath. Here I am washing over thirty years of dirt off the truck. This one definitely had its original paint.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/2014 10:06PM by jgunning.
I didn't take a before photo, but this is No. 14 after a long day of working to restore her look to "In Service". If you look carefully, you can see some of our "touch-up".
In this photo, No. 14 is southbound into Orbisonia in the fog.
We didn't do only locomotives. The timelessness and complete picture of places like the EBT exists because all the elements are there. We talked Stanley into letting us drag the Chevy box truck the EBT had purchased in the 50's out of it's stall. The truck was kept in a shed attached to the roundhouse. Dave and I had to move a mountain of junk that had accumulated around and inside the truck. It had not been driven or out of it's shed since the early 70's. As I recall, it had a 1972 registration in the glovebox. It didn't run and had a barely functioning hand brake. In this picture EBT engineer Tom Holder and I watch as a backhoe pulls the truck out in the open.
The Chevy gets a bath. Here I am washing over thirty years of dirt off the truck. This one definitely had its original paint.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/17/2014 10:06PM by jgunning.
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