For the third year, our home will soon be hosting the
Silicon Valley Lines
model train club Christmas party. To prepare for the event,
I have finished painting the bay window markings
on WP668, our backyard caboose. Tomorrow, John is
going to mount the
Western Pacific herald on the metal plate on the side of WP668.
John wants to preserve the etched shadow of the original WP logo on the original
herald plate, so he lacquered it. Today, he had a 21-1/2″ x 23-1/2″ steel plate cut
(the size of the WP decal we bought from the Portola Railroad Museum), then painted the new plate black. Tomorrow, John will tack
weld the new plate over the old and then mount the decal. WP668 will once
again display the Western Pacific herald!
Here a small size reproduction of the WP logo and a current photo of WP668:
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