2005 Work Session E Photos

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Mary Whelen, Terry Boardman, Mary Cardin and Mary Metzler unload food purchased from the Chama Supermarket.		Terry Boardman, a regular volunteer from Australia, unloads Mary’s van for the first day’s lunches.
Louise Mattson and Bob Goin set up the registration and sales area.		As seen near the kitchen car.
George Mattson addresses volunteers at the Monday morning safety meeting.		Tim Tennant shares with the volunteers the plans for long-time Friends volunteer John Blake’s memorial.
RGRPC General Manager Kim Flowers welcomes the volunteers to Work Session E.		Terry Boardman gives advice on safety, complete with Aussie accent. The BEST.
The Work Session E volunteers.		Joannie Blake, Terri Shaw, Tim Tennant and Kristi Farrington, in front of engine 488, John Blake’s favorite engine.
Working on end sill of boxcar 3533, which is being restored back to a boxcar from boxcar coach.		Installing new ties over the track scale.
Curtis Hixon and Pat Yarborough greet visitors in the yard, and explain the Friends program.		Dan Robbins and John Ruhr working on the idler flatcar 6746.
Ben Sargent paints letters on gondola 1557.		Jean Lee and Sandra Bigsby paint letters on Gondola 1557.
Lettering crew at work on 1557.		Coleen Wilson, Matthew Eskender, and Laura Eskender point the oil house and yard office brick walls.
Randy Worwag and Matt Jamison repair reefer No. 55’s floor with epoxy and sawdust.		Lyla Howell paints the interior of locomotive 489’s cab.
Robert Schoen stands in front of freshly lettered gondola 1557.		Tim Bristow and James Graham work on boxcar 3533.
The women of Work Session E.		Volunteers move Friends equipment out of Ft. Knox and into the Antonito CRF.
Volunteers move Friends equipment out of Ft. Knox and into the Antonito CRF. Plywood was installed along the north wall to protect the insulation.		Volunteers move Friends equipment out of Ft. Knox and into the Antonito CRF.
Volunteers move Friends equipment out of Ft. Knox and into the Antonito CRF.		Work continues on idler flat 6746.
Volunteers carry a new oak needle beam from the woodshop to boxcar 3533.		James Graham cuts mortises in the end sill for boxcar 3533.
Richard Caldwell directs Sandra Bigsby in the placement of stencils on boxcar 3591.		Looking down the line of activity in Chama.
Bill Barbour drills holes for bolts to hold the needle beam and queen posts on boxcar 3533.		Roger Briggs, John Scott and Chas Irvin work on a boxcar door.
John Scott and Roger Briggs measure a boxcar door for fittings.		Ross Hanscom, Eric Mead and John Ruhr work on idler car 6746.
More women at work. Left to right (and I hope we get this right): Terri Shaw, Laura Eskender, Lyla Howell, Collen Wilson, Becky Robbins, Nan Clark, Nancy Gordon, Mary Cardin, Pat Yarborough, Mary Metzler, Louise Mattson, Jean Lee, Genie Hixon, Dorene Tompkins, Mary Whelan, Linda Scott, Jo Ann Frisbee.		The lettering crew at work on boxcar 3591. This car was converted to concession car 450 in the early 1970s, and the Friends began its conversion back to a boxcar in 2002.
Volunteers work on the framing for boxcar 3533, another concession car conversion.		Les Clark tunes up a speeder for the track crew.
John Ruhr and Wendell Schwietzer work on the end sill for boxcar 3533.		The framing for caboose 05635 is just about done.
Terry Boardman grinds flash from the steel brackets that hold the steel sills on caboose 05635.		A telegraphone booth brought to Chama for rebuilding.
Friends members enjoy a barbecue hosted by the Chama Main Street Business Association.		Friends members enjoy a barbecue hosted by the Chama Main Street Business Association.
Friends members enjoy a barbecue hosted by the Chama Main Street Business Association.		Friends members enjoy a barbecue hosted by the Chama Main Street Business Association.
The Chama merchants that hosted the barbecue. A big thanks to all of you from the Friends.