Wood Shop

Standee Windows

For me, the biggest eye opener of the afternoon came when I walked by the Cleveland 4223 PCC and saw four new standee windows already installed!  Eric Lorenz is doing a very classy job and these windows make a huge visual difference to the car.

Brick Mold

Lorne Tweed has completed the work to make a new mold for a specialty refractory brick for the steam shop.  Primer is being applied to seal the mold surfaces, and then two coats of enamel will finish the job, ready to pour.  We also saw Tom Schneider drop by and supplied some material for making a new pattern for a cast iron item that has worn out and broken.

Turbine Paint

Buzz Morisette spends several 'extra' days at IRM during each week, and he has been doing a lot of prep work on the UP 18 turbine.  Today he is mixing aluminum colored paint and loading it into the spray gun for application to the trucks and underbody equipment.  This project is a lot of work, let alone to be accomplished working alone.

Brass Sash

If it seems to you like Jon Fenlaciki has been working a long time restoring windows for CA&E 451, it must seem like FOREVER to him.  But he has made the personal commitment to do these and he was at work again in the shop.

There was a lot of other activity including more cleaning and paint work on our B&O boxcar, removing the A end tackboards, Tim Peters continuing on the CRT 1797, brass polishing, work for new CSL 3142 brake shoes, and a host of other items I could not cover.