Industry Depot finish painting starts

After many hours of hard work of scraping, sanding, and priming, the finish painting on the south end of our ex-Erie Railroad Industry, NY depot started in earnest on Saturday, August 14.   With a crew of 6+ volunteers, the work progressed well throughout the day.  

The crew is well into the repainting just after lunch.   This is looking north at the south end of the depot.  NYS Route 251 is in the foreground.   The tracks to the left are of the Livonia, Avon & Lakeville Railroad and the tracks to the right are the museum's Industry yard.
Photo by: C.R. Hauf  8.13.2011

There is still much more to do including completing the work on the south end and starting the prep work on the north end, but here are some images from our R&GVRRM Flickr site of the work in progress and the results from day one of the repainting.

And as always, we welcome new hands to come out and help us on projects like this.   Click here for more information on volunteering.

Latest newsletter available - August 2011

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Panoramic progress on our passenger car siding!

 

Panoramic progress! Our R&GVRRM Track Crew was again working on the extension of our passenger car siding on Tuesday evening, August 2, 2011. With the east rail set and spiked, work was well underway to continue to gauge and spike the west rail. In this panoramic image (the tracks are actually straight!), you can see the siding extension in the middle, the mainline of the Livonia, Avon & Lakeville Railroad under that, and then our museum mainline under that to the left and right. Once the track is completely spiked, it will be ballasted, leveled and tamped.  Panoramic image by: C.R. Hauf 8.02.2011