This is a project that affects all three of our list's interests:
>FEI (For Everyone's Information):
>
>Many times I have been asked why we are beating the drum so hard on
>fundraising for the CZ dome-lounge Silver Hostel and the FP7 805A...
>
>I have just received the long awaited quote on dome windows for the car.
>These are the main dome windows, not including the teardrops, complete with
>frames, glass, weatherstripping and the proper Solex Green tinting.
>
>Just the dome windows will cost $29,600 assembled and ready to ship. And
>this is less then we expected!
>
>Right now the fund has about $28,000 in it. Thank you to EVERYONE who has
>donated, big and small. Its all going to help, but right now we're looking
>short because...
>
>We still have the lower level windows to order, along with weather stripping
>and some replacement frames. And then we will be doing painting,
>upholstery, welding, skirt replacement and metal bending this spring. We
>have found someone who thinks they can make the teardrop window frames for
>the dome and a stainless steel welder who can perform body repairs and
>replace the missing car end diaphragm. While they are donating their time,
>we still need to purchase materials. And then there is the diaphragm
>material needed to complete the end diaphragms. Just the material is about
>$1000-2000 per end. By summer, we would like to have the exterior and the
>dome section restored. This will all run in the $15,000 to $30,000 range at
>least. Then there is the 805, to which $5000 was hoped to be committed to
>finish the cab windows and begin returning it to reliable operation, no
>small job itself.
>
>And finally there is always the chance of acquiring more CZ artifacts,
>anything from paperwork and photographs to entire cars.
>
>If anyone would like to help support the Zephyr Project and see the dome and
>body restorations completed, please visit
>http://www.wplives.com/frrs/zephyrproject.htm to learn how you can help in
>ways ranging from money donation to volunteering work weekends on the Silver
>Hostel and the 805A. On this page your will find information on the
>Project, the Silver Hostel and the 805A, as well as a link to a printable
>donation form and phone numbers and e-mails for contacts on how to volunteer
>time. Every little bit helps. Also, if you chose to donate funds to the
>project, remember that many companies offer matching donations on charitable
>donations. This is applicable to the FRRS as it is a 501c(3) non-profit.
>And please note that donations earn special gifts of appreciation, anything
>from thank you certificates, to custom hats and shirts, to special Life
>Memberships and commemorative models of the Silver Hostel and 805A.
>
>We are also in tremendous need of color and clear black and white
>photographs of the interior of the dome-lounge-dormitory cars as they
>appeared in the Cable Car Lounge era. We also need fabric colors for the
>dome and lounge seats and the bedroom fixtures, paint color matches and
>formulas for the walls, carpet colors and patterns and information on the
>fixtures in the crew bedrooms and dorm section. ESPECIALLY CRITICAL is the
>need for a match on fabric color and type for the dome seats, paint color
>for the dome walls. and color and pattern for the dome stairs and floor
>carpet.
>
>If you have any questions concerning the Zephyr Project, please contact
>myself at TSRY@a... or my co-lead on the project Eric Stephens at
>Benu71@y...
>
>Work weekends will be starting up in earnest again in March when the weather
>begins to warm. I hope to be posting recent photos of the Hostel in the
>files areas of the e-groups soon.
>
>For more info on the Feather River Rail Society, please go to
>http://www.wplives.com and click the FRRS link. For more information on the
>California Zephyr, one of the best websites in the excellent CZ Virtual
>Museum by Alan Radecki and John Wilson. Find it at
>http://calzephyr.railfan.net.
>
>
>Finally, an apology. I know that there are still folks out there awaiting
>their certificates, buttons, hats, etc. About half of the shirts and hats
>have been sent. The buttons have fallen behind and the commemorative models
>are REALLY behind do to back ordering at Con-Cor. The biggest hold up has
>been in logging the donations, which I am 90% caught up on. My thanks to
>everyone who is being patient. I'm basically running the donation recording
>and gift creation and mailing as a one person show and I need to fit it
>around my two jobs and other work for the Society. BUT THEY WILL ALL BE
>COMING! I hope to be up to date with the donations by Wednesday and caught
>up on mailing hats, shirts, Life Member cards and certificates by next
>Monday.
>
>
>Thanks again to EVERYONE!
>
>
>Eugene John Vicknair
>
>Feather River Rail Society
> Director
> The Zephyr Project, program lead
>
>www.wplives.com
>
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