Thank you to EVERYONE who turned out on September 15, our rain date, for our baggage car painting blitz at Dover Park. After a few nervous moments, when at 8:10 am the clouds opened up and sprinkled everything with a misty morning rain, it cleared up and turned out to be a fantastic day. About 25 energetic volunteers put brushes and rollers to work and were able to finish the exterior painting of the two baggage cars that didn’t get painted last year. We have now painted all three of the cars and they are looking great! Although the baggage cars don’t go anywhere, they are critical support resources which provide work areas and storage for the equipment and supplies that are used to keep our three Amtrak-certified rail cars on the road. The baggage cars are long and it took a lot of paint to cover the approximately 2,600 square feet of exterior railcar surface and several thousand rivets. We ended up applying 11 gallons of paint while using about 20 paint brushes, 12 paint rollers and pans, 10 ladders, and scaffolding! The paint party started about 7 am when the first volunteers arrived and ended just after 6 pm when we locked the gates.