{"id":42086,"date":"2024-05-12T13:36:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T03:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=42086"},"modified":"2024-05-12T13:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T03:36:32","slug":"pauls-blog-may-11-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=42086","title":{"rendered":"Paul\u2019s Blog \u2013 May 11, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-parallax\"><span class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-black-background-color has-background-dim-60 has-background-dim\"><\/span>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-1365 has-parallax\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5804d22557487c19d68b809e68b717c3\">On Saturday, May 11, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Kendall Crouch, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard, Gary Carter, Reid Adams and Paul Brown dodged rain showers while first working to clean up our caboose fleet to get them ready for next week\u2019s train ride event. Kendall and Reid took on the bulk of work sweeping, vacuuming, wiping down surfaces, and even mopping the floors. Meanwhile, Bruce and Chris started working on the Hi-Rail truck to try to finish removing rear wheels and to remove a hydraulic cylinder from the knuckle boom crane on the rear of the truck. This has been an ongoing battle with rusted lugs and bolts. One end of the crane cylinder was easy work, but the other end had bolts that just weren\u2019t budging, so while those were soaked with penetrating oil, the gang turned to the wheel lugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8482442db7a4d35b78a48241aa3fca54\">Chris had an idea to weld an old lug nut to the stuck stud, and that\u2019s when Gary showed up with his welder to help out. With help from the whole crew, and a bit of struggling, those stubborn lug nuts finally came loose and were removed. Now we can get the tires repaired and remounted on the truck so we can use it. Then we spent a little more time working on the crane cylinder and were able to get the two bolts out so the cylinder can now be taken to shop and repaired. We finished this work just as the rain started to come down steady.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1d9d7c19c62ebb0d11ed58367de6bec0\">The volunteers were also able to walk the track around the sharp curve leading into the shop area, to scope out a possible future project. Stay tuned for that one! All in all, a great day with a wide variety of work and a couple of successes in moving a couple of projects forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-76dcad5b2f9113ec5151cb3c41f3d858\">Here are a few photos of today\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0029595c3c0b1b23e7a0ecf16e8cff4c\"><em>\u2013 Paul<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow aligncenter\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_container swiper-container\"><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-prev swiper-button-prev swiper-button-white\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\"><\/a><a class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\"><\/a>\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, May 11, volunteers Dwight Maxey, Colin Mellin, Kendall Crouch, Bruce Davis, Chris Pollard, Gary Carter, Reid Adams and Paul Brown dodged rain showers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":42087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage-trains"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}