(Photo: Aden Wong)
On Monday, June 23rd, a work party travelled to our satellite storage in Deroche. There were two teams – mechanical to start buses, swap batteries: Sean Keating, Milan Streit and Jason Sharpe. The other, cleaning, was composed of Bryan Larrabee, Rian Fatemi, Aden Wong and me.
At the site we have Fageol Twin M48 stored indoors, but Flyers 3334, 2649, 3106 and Brill 3404 are stored outdoors. The was some mildew growth on the exteriors of these coaches, and some mold on the interiors. Numerous insects had made their way into the buses, some were still alive, others were dead. But there was nothing some “elbow grease” couldn’t cope with.
The decision was made to wrap up 3404 in the RV cover Savannah Dewolfe and Bryan had repaired while at Langley. UV rays had made some areas of the cover tissue-thin. We will probably have to revisit 3404 to repair some of the unavoidable damage that occurred on covering the coach.
UV plays havoc with the destination curtains and electronic flip-dots – Jason Sharpe made sure that 3106’s display was as near blank as possible. There is not a blank screen, so it is a matter of switching off the coach while it is in the middle of refreshing the sign. After four or five tries he managed to do it, but there still are a small number of stray dots visible.
Jason was also tasked with backing 3106 into its parking spot — it was tight, and other vehicles parked nearby made it even harder!
It was a long day – thanks to the crews who volunteered!
Wow! Lots of work. A very big thank you to everyone!
What a great team. You all worked so hard to get these babies looking good again .
So glad the weather was with you .
Thank you everyone.