CN F7 #9159 - A 58 Year Journey - Part 2 of 2

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In this TRHA News posting, we continue to follow the story of the F7 #9159's cab as told by Barry Silverthorn:

"Having purchased the cab and pilot from Century Locomotive Parts, I had the cab trucked to Waterford, Ontario. I removed parts that could be stolen or vandalized and applied a temporary coat of rust-paint to protect it as shown in the picture at the upper left. . The F7 cab then sat in Waterford, Ontario for seven years.
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In June of 1998, the cab was moved to Brantford, Ontario. Some of the extra steel was torched away to make it lighter. Equipment that wasn't original, like the MU boxes and ditchlight mounts, was removed. I used a high-speed grinder to remove eight coats of paint, up to 1/16" thick. It took three days of grinding to remove the top layers of paint in preparation for sandblasting. This method is slower than sandblasting but much less expensive. In the picture in the middle above, this work is in progress.
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In late-2007 an agreement was made in principle to donate the cab to the TRHA for use as a display and console for a computerized train simulator. It was moved to Western Mechanical for sandblasting in January of 2008 as shown in the pictures at the upper right and the lower left."
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Western Mechanical has now completed cleaning up the F7 Cab and repainting it in a black protective paint as shown in the two pictures at the lower right. The next step will be to move the cab to Roundhouse Park.
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Click here to return to Part 1 of this TRHA News Posting
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Posting by Russ Milland; Pictures by Barry Silverthorn, Western Mechanical and Dave Wetherald
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