Even railroaders can't escape house keeping chores.Today was moving day for the El Dorado Western. Hard work, sweat and grime characterized this move as we emptied a Diamond Springs storage locker and moved our stuff to Denver & Rio Grande boxcar No. 3427 in the town of El Dorado.
I say "stuff" because we had collected a decade's worth of essential parts for the D&C No. 4 Shay as well as an odd collection of historic "junk."
EDWRF Director Ed Cunha told me this morning the we went through a phase where any donation was gladly accepted, whether it had value to the railway or not.
Included in the collection were two pieces with the hand-painted Four Spot on the 1940s steel cab. When restored, a handcrafted oak cab will replace the steel cab on the Shay.
The photo of railway President Eric Stohl (left) and volunteer Dale Mace with the Four Spot served as a fitting end to the six-hour move. Moments like this ease the drudgery of cleaning house.
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