In July 2009 I agreed to a trade that brought this grand old lady, built 1921, to my collection of railroad relics. In preparation, I built a 2/3 scale replica VGN motor car shed and painted it in the color scheme adopted by the railroad after World War II, gray with dark brown trim. In late March 2011 the actual restoration began. Read on and see how the restoration progressed.Start at the bottom entry and read upward. That's a blog. The picture above shows the 109 completed July 6,2011
VGN RY Motor Car 109
Sitting in front of replica 2/3 scale VGN motor car shed in 2009
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Nooks and Crannies * June 7 2011
Getting the several layers of paint off some metal pieces is very hard, even with a media blaster using a hard blasting material. I tried used a chemical paint remover and when the paint started to blister, I hit it with the sandblaster. That has worked some of the time. A few days ago I had another idea; heat the stubborn areas on the steel wheels with a blow torch and then hit them with the sandblaster. That is working very well. But whichever method I use, progress is slow. The wheels are particularily difficult because they must have come from other cars that had been damaged and retired. Three wheels seem to have four layers of paint while one wheel has five layers! Ghee, the car should be lighter not having all those layers of paint! ;O)
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