1 : 1 scale modeling

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I 'll start with yesterday... When I arrived for our work session in Scranton I was greeted to the sound of our EMD's doing switcher duty by the Steamtown crew. I filmed then pulling a cold steamer off the drop table and over to the round house. The F's have become a favorite of the crews there. http://s840.photobucket.com/albums/zz328...090930.mp4 I later learned that it had been involved in a small fender bender the day before when it struck the mezzanine in the round house damaging the headlight beyond repair.
The front glass And cover can be replaced but, the parabolic reflector is a total loss and can not be fixed.

The T-1 is now showing off it's completed paint job as seen here..





But now back to the DL&W F-3's. The B unit has been our focus of attention lately as the two A's have been filling in on excursions and even the daily trains out of Steamtown this summer.. This year has not been kind to the motive power at the park. Both steamers and the Nickle plate Geep have spent a lot of time out of service so our units have seen a bunch of in-service miles. As for the "B" we have been restoring it back to service one of the jobs was to replace a section of 3in flex that connects the control cabinet in the front to everything in the rear of the unit. At this point there is no wire in it but that will change soon.

We have also applied a rust Inhibitor/converter to the control cabinet, compare the color of it in the two pics and you will see the difference.

The air compressor and generator blower have also got some TLC. The major components have been removed and sent to the parts washer, we'll reassemble them next week.

The last thing that we did was to spot the 664's rear truck over the drop table and prep it for removal. The prime mover sits in a pit or sump that was filled with old oil. That oil got cleaned out some time ago,but a good part of it has made it's way down through the undercarriage and settled on the rear truck causing some grounding concerns. The truck will be removed next week, cleaned, and reinstalled. while it is out we'll look into how to stop this from happening again.