Car # 178 - Tuesday - 09/08/20
We Cleaned all the Top Blocks off and cleaned off all the brick shards and Sand
We Tore Down Car 49 to completely rebuild Car 178 because 49 was in horrible shape and beyond repair
We Replaced All of the Traling Edge Perimiter Blocks because they were all missing
We replaced all the Perimiters on car 178 with all the ones off of car 49 and installed KOA wool Expansion Joints
We replaced 3 Broken Center Supports and Re-alinged all the ones out of place
We replaced all the top block and installed KOA wool for expansion joints vertically
We Straigthened Left Front Skirt Corner so they would go through the kiln
Painted all 8 sides of all 4 of the Corner Blocks and Painted Number #178 on all 8 sides
There is allot of pictures for this one because there was to much damage to get in just a couple of shots
And cut the new Leading Edge Top Block and installed them on the car with KOA wool for expansion Joints .
View Lead Block Pictures
Car #49 before - The Front of the Car was is bad shape and missing Allot of Blocks
Car #49 before - Front View of the Car showing Perimiter Damage and Missing Blocks
Car #49 before - Left Side View of the Car showing Perimiter Damage and Missing Blocks
Car #49 before - Trailing Edge all the block were broken because the Bottom Pour was crumbled to dust
Car #178 before - All the Perimiter Block were missing and only had 16 Top Block left on it
Car #178 before - Side View of Car and what we had to work with but was still in better shape then car 49
Car #178 Frint View of Car and Expansion Joints
Car #178 Rear View of Completed Car
Car #178 Front and Side View of Completed Car
