Wood Shop

Stanchions

Frank Sirinek and Mike Alterio have been working to reconstruct a fairly elaborate system of stanchions and railings on the two Chicago & West Towns 141 platforms.  Frank has a handful of very special fittings and each pipe is custom cut and threaded to fit.

Windows

Tim Peters with some of the recently completed windows for CRT 1797.  Of course no window is really complete until painted, glazed and installed in the car.  But he continues to fit and fine tune, add details to these sash.  Maybe I should just use the word WINDOWS to caption each photo - I think there was work on windows for no fewer than seven different car projects in the shop yesterday.

Framed

Henry Vincent continues to lead work on creating displays.  Here he is painting some trim molding to frame one of his recent constructions.

Mortising

John Faulhaber is doing the mortising for two new windows for the passenger car, GLEN SPRINGS.

Framed, Again

In almost record time, Rich Witt and John display two fitted frames, ready for gluing.  And in fact, that happened and was accomplished by the end of the work day.

Windows

Victor Humprheys was painting the interior sides of four new windows for N&W 2050.  These were fairly tricky to make for us, although I am sure a journeyman cabinetmaker of a century ago, dealt with these routinely.

Parts

Parts for windows, that is.  Simon Harrison, Roger Kramer, and Richard Witt are thickness planing a large pile of parts - for windows!  These are destined to become nine new sash for a passenger car, Illinois Central 3996.

Pullman Window

Roger Kramer has completed a sash for our Pullman car INGLEHOME.  It sure will look good installed in that car.