Caboose SLSF 1291

Discussion in '1260-1292' started by paul slavens, May 2, 2014.

  1. paul slavens

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  2. Joe Lovett

    Joe Lovett Member

    Paul, the photos look great! What type of power equipment do you use to sand the floor? I read the whole thread from the beginning, you have done a great job on the cabooses and I like the photos you posted along the way from the beginning to the floor photos you sent us at noon!

    Joe
     
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  3. paul slavens

    paul slavens Member

    Hi Joe, the first sander we will use is a large orbital floor sander that you hold with both hands in front of you , it has a 2o inch sanding pad, first will use coarse sandpaper to level all the planks together and take out the ridges in between planks. Even though the boards are tounge and groove , some of them are slightly higher or lower than the others. Once the floor is uniform we will sand it with fine sandpaper using a "jitterbug" sander that is hand held and vibrates. After that we will fill in any knots or deviations with wood putty and then sand it smooth one last time. I was going to stain and polish the floor but have since decided to just paint it, as the original floor was painted. The bottom of the floor will be painted with black urethane enamel, the top with grey enamel. I think painting both sides of the floor will help preserve it for many decades......Another improvement we made was this. The original floors rotted out because the ends of the boards drew moisture that came down the interior of the walls through the window openings. The window openings were not seal welded, they were spot welded leaving small gaps for the water to enter, and once the water got in it was trapped in the bottom of the walls and had nowhere to go but into the wood All the rot in the floors was at the very ends of the boards. We have already gone back and seal welded all the window jambs, and we drilled holes every 18 inches in the bottom braces under the walls to drain any water or condensation that may still get in. Thanks again for the kind words Joe, I very much enjoy posting progress pics here for all of us. You should drop by and visit again if you get a chance.
     
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  4. paul slavens

    paul slavens Member

    The floor is installed and sanded smooth now, I think it turned out pretty reasonable. Tomorrow we will start installing all the steel cabinets and new cupola floors and seating.
     
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  6. William Jackson

    William Jackson Bill Jackson

    Great looking.
     
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  7. paul slavens

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    We got our cupola stair and cabinet panels back from the blaster, along with the center support walls for the cupola floors, I primered them all today and we will start welding them back in place Monday and then adding the new steel floors and walls for the upper section of the cupola. If you look at the flat center support walls in the pic below you can see a weld seam where we replaced the rusty lower sections of the panels. We are having so much fun, getting exciting seeing 1291 come back together.
     
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  8. paul slavens

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  9. Joe Lovett

    Joe Lovett Member

    Paul, Please set up two albums with your photos, one for 1288 and another one for 1291. Each album could have all of the photos showing the progression you have made since the beginning of the projects. I for one would like to see it as well as some of the other members.

    Joe
     
  10. paul slavens

    paul slavens Member

    Hi Joe, I made a thread for 1288 a few months ago, and have documented all the work done to 1288 on her own tread. I need to change the title of this thread to 1291 only and delete 1288 from this title. I will see if I can do that, if not an admin would be able to. thanks !
     
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  11. r c h

    r c h Ft Worth - Tulsa Engineer

    Paul,

    Things are looking great!

    Could you take a photo of the stair/cabinet assembly straight on and an overall measurement of the width and height? It would be very easy to create a drawing of the whole thing from such a photo and the measurements would dial in the scale.
     
  12. paul slavens

    paul slavens Member

    I will get that Ryan. The top of the cabinet is the bottom of the cupola floor, and this one from 1291 is of course shorter than the ones in 1200-84. Look for the pic tomorrow Sunday.
     
  13. r c h

    r c h Ft Worth - Tulsa Engineer

    Thanks Paul. That's helpful. I'm looking forward to the photo.
     
  14. Friscotony

    Friscotony Member

    Looking at your 'weld seam', I would say that whoever did the work is an artist. Very well done work.


    Tony LaLumia
     
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  15. paul slavens

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    Ryan the cabinet is 77" wide and 59" tall.
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  16. r c h

    r c h Ft Worth - Tulsa Engineer

    Thanks, Paul. It looks great!
     
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  17. gjslsffan

    gjslsffan Staff Member Staff Member

    Yes it does, looks just like the one at Parachute only better!!
    Great stuff Paul.
     
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  18. William Jackson

    William Jackson Bill Jackson

    What time period are you going for, those were kinda of a Cream color in the early 70's and then went to a light green later on.
     
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  19. paul slavens

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    William she will be restored as she was built, so the interior will be cream colored. The pic shows the part in the first coat of primer after it was sand blasted.
     
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  20. paul slavens

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    The cupola stair cabinets are back in place where they belong, the large rods welded on the sides were just temporary handles to allow us to move them into the caboose. This operation brings the interior work to a stop for a little while as we move forward on the exterior paint.
     

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