this is just the cutout from the other end of the car



and the piece thats going back in



the sky was doing some tripy things that day....



my little apprentice welding the jacket on. every piece needs to be welded fully around.... very time consuming.



side jacket is on, and you can see the top gaurd rails are all bent and broke. there is supposed to be a ladder coming down, but it got ripped off. ill have to fab all of that later. as of today though, the other side ladder needed to be fixed as well and i have already repaired that. ill get some more pics monday



here is the side almost finished



HERE is the fill pass weld on the bulkhead, the other pic was just fitup..





so thats what i do for a living. this RWD or railway damage car is actually fun from the regular maintence we usually do on the cars. lots of fab work. this was all done in the first week, i forgot to take pics of last week, but ill do that monday.

heres what the car should look like when im done...