2004 Work Session E Photos by Tom Cardin

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Volunteers gather for the safety meeting on Monday morning.	Don Bayer and Bob Goin cutting mortises for the top sill on caboose 05635.
Bob Goin and Mike Thode roll the trucks under caboose 0503.	Bob Wisneski and Don Frisbee cut mortises for the end beam on flat car 6755.
A new sill is being put into place on flat car 6755. A lot of wood required replacing on this car. Only a couple of sills were good enough to save and most of those had new oak ends inset.	Dick Garnier saws timber to fit flat car 6755.
John Engs, Bob Conry and Ed Seidel erect a temporary cover for car repair.	Work continues on the temporary cover for car repair.
Volunteers search for the foundation of the station at Cumbres Pass.	Terri Shaw and the Cumbres archeological team check the site plan at Cumbres Pass. Uncovered timbers can be seen in the photo. The team is working to determine the location of long gone structures.
Exploring the site of the covered turntable and coal bunker at the west end of the Cumbres snow shed.	Mike Morse, Norval Alliston, Dave Ferro and Davd Cull clean dirt out of the Cumbres car inspectors house so they can work on the floor joists and install a new floor.
Randy and Lee Parks replace timber in drop bottom gondola 859, which is being rebuilt in Antonito.	New leaf spring truck for caboose 0579.
Wade Hall, Bill Kepner and Cal Smith prepare to remove an old freight truck from underneath caboose 0579.	Out comes the old truck.
The old truck is moved out of the way to make way for the new one.	Bill Kepner and crew roll a new truck under caboose 0579.
Bill Kepner double checks the alignment of the new truck prior to lowering caboose 0579.	One set of correct trucks under caboose 0579.
Don Metzler paints box car 3591 in the Chama yard. This car, formerly boxcar coach 450, was converted back to a boxcar in 2003.	George Detwiler, Ed Seidel, Sandy Bigsy and John Engs under the roof of the temporary car shelter located in the "swamp" area of the Chama yard.
Caboose 0503 is placed under the temporary car shelter.	Rick Wisneski, Don Frisbee and Roy Blizzard put a new sill in place on flat car 6755, which is being rebuilt in the Chama yard.
Randy Worwag checks the fit of the doors on reefer 55, while Richard Howell holds the ladder.	Caboose 05635 rises again. This caboose, which was converted from stock car 5635 in the 1970s, was disassembled down to the floor during work sessions C and D. It is being rebuilt as a caboose.
Don Bayer, Tim Bristow, Roy Blizzard, Don Frisbee, Bob Tully, Bob Wisneski, Terry Boardman and Bob Goin raise a top sill in place on caboose 05635, which is being rebuilt from the floor up.	Don Bayer, Tim Bristow, Roy Blizzard, Don Frisbee, Bob Tully, Bob Wisneski, Terry Boardman and Bob Goin just about have the top sill in place.