Photos from A Recent EBT Trip

[Amalynn]

Locomotive #14 in the locomotive shop, again -


Moving in to the car shop, there are three tracks. Apparently they were used in the following ways - The furthest left track is for quick fixes, in and out type stuff. The middle track is for more heavy duty repairs that may need more time or more intensive work. The right track closest to the rest of the shop complex are for the heaviest of repairs, and I would suspect that's likely also the track where things like carbuilding were done.

On the outermost track are a steel flatcar, currently loaded with a bunch of wood. Behind it are one of the cabooses and behind that is Coach 8.


These are all special wood tools, which also run off of the shops' belt system. The track down through it all is a 2' gauge track used to transport materials from the wood shed at the south end of the shop in to the car shop. There was a small push cart that goes on it as well.


Down the rightmost track at the moment are a collection of EBT speeders. All but one known to survive are at the railroad. You can also see the 2' gauge track running next to it. That track would have been incredibly useful for doing repairs and building of wooden freight cars and later passenger cars.


More speeders -


Between the doors entering in to the shop complex you can see a little door for the 2' gauge cart.


I was able to grab an incredibly helpful close-up shot of the endsill of the B end of Coach 8. What's up with that uncoupling lever? That's whack. This will be pretty helpful in modelling Coach 8 which I am hoping to resume work on in a couple of months.


This is the buildup of paint of decades of workers cleaning dauber brushes (used to mark cars with things like re-weight dates).


Here's that wheelset cart's little track going all the way out to the car shop middle track.


The car shop, left and centre tracks, from the outside. I believe the section with all the rails close to the camera are for a scale for the shops originally. Don't mind the FEBT volunteer diligently working to repaint the shop building. They were holding a work weekend the same day as my tour.