CABOOSE FRAME & 65 T-BIRD

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The 65 T-Bird went to Hackberry Auto body to get the engine compartment and other parts painted. I will get it back in about 2 weeks to install the engine and get it running.

 All loaded up and ready to go.

 This is at the body shop taking some of the body parts off. The engine compartment had been painted but we decided that we did not like the Chantilly Beige.

 The Caboose project is coming along in the two pictures below I am fabricating the frame from 2-1/2 X 8-1/2 channel left over from another project.
 The two frame rails are 36' each and I have 14' pieces of channel so each rail is made up of 2-14' with 4' on each end. They were laid out on the shop floor and splice plates were welded on each end and the support legs welded on.
 The frame was set on two saw horses and painted.
 The foundations are 2'X2'X2.5' blocks and a jack was used to get it level and at the correct height.
 This is the second 14' rail fabricated and ready to go out to the site. 
 The pictures below show the completed 36' frame with the concrete poured.

Here you can see how the splice plate is used to join the sections together.
 Next I will fab the second frame rail up, dig and form the foundations then complete the frame with end and center cross members.

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