2005 Work Session A Photos

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Fred Kuhns, Chuck Armstrong and Martin Gonzoles repair the freight dock around the Chama depot.		Tim Bristow's crew paints caboose 0306.
Caboose 0503, primed with "Elmers Glue"--at least that's what it looks like.		New sand chute in the sand house. Now the railroad can use air to pump sand into the sand domes on the locomotives.
Ronnie Lopez painting one of the Chama coaches		The Friends' party at the Chama Cattle Company restaurant, recently reopened by Osier's Steven Flowers.
More from the Friends' party at the Chama Cattle Company restaurant.		More from the Friends' party at the Chama Cattle Company restaurant.
More from the Friends' party at the Chama Cattle Company restaurant.		The Antonito CRF combined concrete and electrical crews. L-R back row: Noreen Breeding, Russ Hanscom, John Engs, Ted Smith, John Sutkus, Marshall Smith, Martin Gonzalez, Mark Valerius. L-R front row: John Cole, Roger Breeding, Fred Kuhns, Chuck Armstrong.
John Cole and John Sutkis, concrete team leader, discuss the excavation work for the concrete on the first day of Session A.		John Cole, John Sutkis and some of the donated conduit for the electrical project. John brought the compressor all the way from the Orange Empire Railway Museum in California in his wife’s Ford Explorer.
Prep work for the electrical and concrete work is under way. L-R: John Engs, Chuck Armstrong, Ted Smith and Martin Gonzalez.		Max Pacheco’s track gang has the second switch to connect the Antonito RIP track to the CRF lead partially completed.
Roger Breeding and Jeb, the chief electrical inspector.		Marshall Smith and John Engs, electrical team leader, install one-inch and two-inch EMT conduit on the north wall.
Concrete crew members Martin Gonzalez, Chuck Armstrong, John Sutkus and Fred Kuhns get the rebar ready for Wednesday’s pour.		Ed Lowrance, CRF project manager, getting all tied up in his work with the rebar.
Conduit runs and boxes installed on the north wall prior to Wednesday’s concrete pour.		The east wall view of the main electrical panels and conduit runs. Rebar and concrete forms are ready for concrete the next day, Wednesday, May 11.
The first batch of concrete arrives.		Chuck Armstrong watches Fred Kuhns direct the cement truck driver as Fred, Ted Smith and John Sutkus begin pouring the first concrete in the northeast corner of the CRF.
Concrete crew members Ted Smith, Martin Gonzalez, John Sutkus and Fred Kuhns begin to pour in earnest.		Ed Lowrance watches for the next load to arrive as Jay Wimer talks to the concrete crew team leader, John Sutkus. Martin Gonzalez, Chuck Armstrong and Ted Smith keep busy while waiting for another load to arrive.
John Cole, and Noreen and Roger Breeding prepare electrical boxes for installation.		John Cole, John Engs and Russ Hanscom select wire for the first wire pulls on the south wall.
The concrete crew waits on the last load of concrete.		John Engs, Marshall Smith and Russ Hanscom bending conduit and doing a very good job of a complicated multi-bend piece.
John Engs, Roger Breeding and Jeb assist with a wirepull. Jeb’s job was to make sure there were no shoe smells that were out of spec. We all got checked periodically.		Marshall Smith pulls wire, assisted by Noreen Breeding with the fish tape.
Electrical boxes wired and ready to be checked. These are located by the south track door, and include a 50-amp and 20-amp, 250-volt receptacle, and double 20-amp, 120-volt GFCI receptacles. The north track has the same arrangement. The building has 13 double GFCI receptacles (26 total duplexes), 5 50-amp, 250-volt receptacles, 5 20-amp, 250-volt receptacles, and 5 20-amp, 3 phase, 4-wire, twist/lock receptacles, as well as 6 lighting circuits.		Russ Hanscom makes up connections in the sub-breaker panel for north track door circuits.
John Cole makes up connections in the sub-breaker panel for south track door circuits.		Track door receptacles and boxes completed and closed up.
Concrete crew members Martin Gonzalez, John Sutkus, and Chuck Armstrong were back on Friday to remove the concrete form boards and clean up the spillage. The concrete pad looks great.		The electrical crew takes a breather from a hectic week to pose for a crew portrait. Left to right: John Engs (team leader), John Cole, Russ Hanscom, Noreen Breeding, Mark Valerius, Marshall Smith, and Roger Breeding seated in front with Jeb.
Mark Valerius and main electrical panels.