Circular 8.16 Maintenance of Way - Painting Operations

Western Washington Short Line
Office of the General Manager
100 Railroad Avenue
Monetesano, Washington

CIRCULAR NUMBER: 8.16                                                               DATE: January 1, 1955

MAINTENANCE OF WAY

 Painting Operations

BY AUTHORITY OF:


S.B.Clinard
President and General Manager ___________________________________________________________________________________

Prototype Information

ln general, the maintenance of way painting can be handled in one of four ways: 

1. All painting may be done by a traveling gang of experienced painters. 

2. The work of painting derails, switch-stands, targets, etc., and minor structures may be done by the section forces. 

3. The painting of new structures and repair work may he done by the carpenters. 

4. The painting may be done by locally hired painters. 

The traveling paint-gang should be divided into two classes of painters, one for steel structures and one for timber structures. Many persons believe that painting can be done by anyone. As a rule, the skilled painter can get better results with a poor quality of paint than an inexperienced man can get with the best of materials. Paint should never be applied in wet or freezing weather, though by thinning the paint with turpentine and properly brushing it on, an experienced man can do good work in cold weather.