Wood Shop

Window Moldings

We will start of this entry by welcoming Bruce Plaxton back to the shop areas.  Here he is working on new window moldings for the dozen new windows destined for the CA&E cars.  When the cars from the Trolleyville collection first arrived at IRM, you would trip over all the folks coming out for a look see or to help.  Where are all you guys now?  To be sure, a lot of work is being done, but as usual more help would ensure continued results.

We also did some shop work on a new signbox sash for the CA&E 409 and for new windows for IC 9792 caboose.

Then, to help fill out this entry here are a few pics more properly from the Electric Car Department.

Spring Time

Yes, the calendar says it is spring time, but here the IT 415 is up on jacks and the truck pulled to change out a broken leaf spring.  A pair of new springs would be the proper course of action but funds are lacking.  So a patch job was done, using an old salvaged leaf spring assembly.  That will place the car back in service - for a while at least.

CAE 36

By mid afternoon the CA&E 36 was spotted on Track 41 for a truck swap.  As I understand it, the Cleveland RTA swapped the motor truck on this car for one from another Trolleyville car, to get the 36 running for demo purposes on their system.  The plan is now to place this car on a shop truck and send the motor truck now below it to the east coast to trade for the original which was under the car.  When that arrives at Union, the process will be reversed to again have the correct motor truck underneath.