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March 9th 2004, Joseph rolling the Flues... Joseph is a Experienced
M.O.W. Employee but now he is learning a whole new Field of work and
becoming quite a Good Boiler Worker.. |
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This is 487's Smokebox.. March 9th 2004 and the flues are going in..
in the foreground you can see the Air-rachet and the rolling
device.. joe has been rolling the Flues!! |
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Joe rolling the Flues.. |
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Here is 484's right side, you can see the extensive work that has
been completed on the firebox.. March 9th 2004. |
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Locomotive 484's right side... you can see the work done to the
Expansion Link, they are in the process of timing the Locomotive.
March 9th 2004. |
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A pair of new Locomotive Pistons.. |
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In this Picture you can see Locomotive 484's main crank pin and main
rod and the eccentric crank... |
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You are looking at 484's cyclinders... the Power Piston has been
capped and the top Piston or piston valve is still open! March 9th
2004. |
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You are looking at 484's Smokebox sheet, it has been completed and
looks Great... |
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This is 484's completed Firebox Sheet. Fantastic Work!!!! |
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These are 484's connecting Rods, they still need to be placed on
484. |
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These are 487's new Super-heater Units or pipes. March 9th 2004. |
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This is Bobby working on Cleaning parts for the Locomotives in Chama!!
He is doing a great Job, The clean parts look brand new!! |
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Another view of 484's running gear! |
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Another view of 484's running Gear!! March 9th 2004. |
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Another view of 484's Smokebox.. |
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March 9th 2004. Here are the Guys working hard, |
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Jose and Orlando perfecting their vertical welding skills.. |
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Max Pacheco the Road Foreman, working on his skills. |
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No flash here... the picture was taken with the light from the arc
of the weld, Ed working on Vertical welding!!! |
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More views from class. |
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Marvin and Julio working on some very difficult welding, |
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Josh putting down a weld.. |
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The guy to the right is our Teacher.. Very Nice Guy, we are lucky to
have him teaching us, Very Knowledgeable and a gentleman.. |
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March 10th 2004... 488's Tender coming out of the shop with the
Logo!!! |
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Three... Taaa Daaaa... 488's Tender, fully repaired and Painted and
Lettered with the Flying Cumbres and Toltec Logo... Ready for
Service.. |
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March 10th 2004, Ready for Service... |
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Doesn't that look Great... Everybody in the Antonito Shop was
involved in this project.. and we are pleased with the end result,
we hope you are too... |
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Marvin Jr, Sam, Ronnie and Ray looking over the 488's Tender..look
at the shine on that tender... |
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This is a little earlier, Ray is applying the Logo to the 488's
tender... |
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Ray and Ronnie working on the Logo, in this Picture they are pulling
the backing material away from the logo.. look closely and you can
see how metallic the logo is!! |
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Ronnie working the Logo, look at the shine on those letters. |
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488's new Logo shines in the Lights of the shop!! |
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Car 505 scrapped, sanded, and prepped for new paint, we will first
apply a layer of linseed oil, then we will apply the Green Paint. |
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Another view of 505, ready for paint.. oh and I
will take this time to answer a much requested question... The
Antonito Shop consists of 8 employee's: Marvin, Teresa, Ronnie, Ray,
Sam, Marvin V, Myself carlos and Joseph.. and we are rebuilding or
servicing all 19 Passenger Cars and the 2 rider Gondolas, we are
doing maintenance on the Tamper, we are working on 3 tenders and
locomotive 487. |
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March 10th 2004, this is Fish-eye photo taken in the Boiler of 487..
the picture was lit with only a single light outside in the smokebox!
Look towards the rear and you can see a few holes left in the flue
sheet that still need flues to be added. |
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Another of those weird Pictures... these are things or sights of the
Boiler that I get to see everyday, this is why I am so happy to have
this web-site.. I can share these sights with you out there in
Internet Land!!! |
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A few more Flues and this sight will be gone... |
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The flues needed to be cut to size, after measuring the length we
had to cut the flues and this is how we did it... by hand with a big
Pipe-cutter. March 11th 2004. |
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Here's Joe working on the Flues, to be honest we didn't want to mess
up so we cut the Flues a little long to avoid messing one up.. Joe
is grinding the flues to size!!! March 11th 2004. |
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Another shot of Joe working the Flues, Joe spent most of the Day in
this Position... this is what causes those sore muscles.. |
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Commission Meeting and here are the Bosses... Kim, Marvin and
Julio... |
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Here is another Freshly Painted Car... 505 is looking Good!! |
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Car 505 becomes the Toltec... Thanks to Ronnie, did a great job on
the Painting... Ray and Teresa helped prep the Car.. |
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Here is a shot of 487's new Staybolts... except for a few odd sized
ones, we are done!!! |
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Trying to get a close-up for you... |
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487's new right side Staybolts, |
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Tried to include a close up shot, to show the detail on the
Staybolts, I have to admit they look pretty cool. |
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Here's a good close-up of one of 487's Staybolts.. |
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487's right side and all the new Staybolts... there is a lot of sore
muscles responsible for those Staybolts... |
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In this Picture, you can see 487's front flue sheet, all the flues
have been put in place and we are now starting to roll them into
place.. |
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Another view of 487's flues in place.. March 12th 2004. |
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Here is 487's back head or rear section of Boiler... we are gonna
replace a few staybolts here also and you can see the new holes... |
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Here is a picture of the Interior of 484's Firebox, you can see the
new Patch and its new Staybolts, you can also see a few staybolts
that need to be replaced..March 12th 2004. |
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Another view of the Repaired patch and staybolts in 487's firebox.. |
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This is the smaller patch in 487, |
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Another View of Car 505, the Toltec with Fresh Paint... oh and by
the way to Salute the Holiday coming up... St Patrick's Day... we
painted the Car Green!!!! Bless you all!!! |
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Once again that is the end... take care you all... I would like to
thank everybody who has helped with this site.. it has been fun for
me and I look forward to the Summer.. I have alot of plans for this
page over the course of the whole Year... Thank you for all the
Great E-mails.. and I look forward to seeing you all soon... I am
getting tons of e-mail, so I apologize for being late sometimes in
replying! And I also want to thank my Fellow Employee's who put up
with me carrying my Camera everywhere I go.. Thanks for being
Patient Guys! See ya Later... Carlos "Twinky" Llamas. |
