Monday June 04, 2007
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Monday June 04, 2007
WP6668 Caboose Restoration Photos
Here are some photos of our early projects restoring WP668, the 91-year-old Western Pacific caboose in our backyard. The yellow car stops will keep her from rolling. A prior owner of WP668 cut through one inside and outside wall to install a big window. (He just made the hole - the window was never added.) John has now filled in the exterior boards and bolted the new wood in place. He was able to insert cut-to-fit rigid foam insulation into the irregular cavity spaces between the interior and exterior tongue and groove walls on either side of the new wall patch. So, already both the ceiling and 1/4 of the caboose walls have modern insulation instead of an air gap. John took a sample of WP668's original wood to a local lumber company and they confirmed it was first growth fir.
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WP668 caboose
car stop 1: 
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WP668 caboose
car stop 2: 
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WP668 caboose
inside new wall: 
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WP668 caboose
new wall outside (and John): 
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WP668 caboose
John and wall: 
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WP668 caboose
old wall meets new wall: 
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WP668 caboose
exterior wall filled: 
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Images Copyright 2007 by Katy Dickinson
Posted at 07:04PM Jun 04, 2007 by katysblog in Caboose Project and Other Trains |
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