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Monday, December 5. 2011Heavyweight Sleeper JOHN McLOUGHLIN UpdateLast mentioned in June of this year, Mark Hoffman and I have made some fine progress in repainting this car. Bottomline, the vestibule which was primed in June is now painted a lovely PULLMAN GREEN!! All parts that were taken off more than a year ago are also now reattached. The Winter phase is upon us. That is surface prepping parts of the roof for painting next Spring. Please stop buy barn 3 to view the progress. Donations? .....yes, the "John" could use a few dollars. Thanks in advance for your donation directed to fund RMCLOU. The next really big job is to locate a buffer stored outside in the material yard. Interested in lending a helping hand? See Mark or myself for an exciting afternoon of FUN at the ole train yard. Thanks..... Roger Kramer. Monday, December 5. 2011BN 9908, shining and new steel
There was a bit of progress made on the 9908 in the past few days. On Thursday, the first section of new steel was formed and welded into place on the firemans side of the nose. This was done by cutting a flat sheet to the correct dimensions and placing a close bend to fit the horizontal curve of the nose. The flat portion was welded into place on the side, and then some relief cuts made in a few places to allow the patch to bend on the vertical curve. All the seams were V'ed and welded into place. On Friday night, Riley and Jeron began to wipe the panels on the engineers side, making them shine right up. The BN used Imron paint, so some rags with lacquer thinner does a great job cleaning off the rust streaks and dead paint. They completed about 4 side sheet panels in a short time. There are many more photos available than are shown in this blog, and are shown here with the most recent being shown first.
Monday, December 5. 2011Wood Shop Update - December 3, 2011Please note that reports with this title are not all about making sawdust. It is a communal shop space and shared freely (sometimes).  Engineering Rich Witt works on engineering the details for the next batch of passenger car windows in the shop cue. It is always a good idea to have a plan and know what to do, and in this case Rich found a conflict and proposed a good solution. Other window work proceeded for passenger cars. Two new sash for the Glen Springs, were a loose pile of incomplete parts a week ago, and by today fitted, glued, and finish sanded.  ATSF 1400 Buzz Morisette is building new replacement windows for the captioned wood caboose. AND - he has raised the money to buy those supplies and materials. Of course it is not too late for you to help with a donation to this project.  CRT 1797 The twenty two new windows being fabricated for this car by Tim Peters move ahead. All of those were processed through our Berlin Sander (along with two additional sash) in about an hour. It does a great job, and saves an ENORMOUS amount of time. A few years ago we would be considering it an accomplishment to assemble and finish two new windows in a two months. Yet we moved significantly ahead on 24 in a single morning. In the above image, Tim is trimming off the extensions of the side stiles. Just as on the originals, the sash are assembled with these extensions to protect against handling and make the assembly easier. Then they are simply and quickly trimmed back using a jig and the tablesaw.  Molding Cutters John Naglich brings over more molding knives while Victor Humphreys begins to clean a cabinet to store them. This collection of railroad molding profile knives has been in the museum for years, but is now finally taking its place in the wood shop. Victor also painted four new sash for the N&W 2050 steam locomotive. There is a separate entry for a lot of work on the Cleveland PCC and oddly enough for early December, temperatures were mild enough to allow some more lettering work on our GN hopper. Mike Stauber and Frank Sirinek continued on restoration work on one truck for our TM 972 streetcar. |
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Thu, 05-16-2013 21:52
Looking good Bob! I hope to come out soon once I'm done with school.
Wed, 05-15-2013 21:28
I was not around at the time. General discussion suggests that it was "pretty marginal" in a number of areas. Nigel
Mon, 05-13-2013 11:08
"THUMBS UP!"
Fri, 05-10-2013 02:15
No, it will not be necessary to hold any of the work waiting for the plow to be turned, end for end. Weather will be the major factor, but there will [...]
Thu, 05-09-2013 19:54
The CGW X-38 plow is really coming to life. Bob Kutella and Vic and crew need to be very proud of your collective efforts. I am very appreciative of [...]
Thu, 05-09-2013 15:20
The snowplow looks great! Are you going to apply the door and upper windows befor it is turned to continue work?
Thu, 05-09-2013 09:09
Max, Is there any progress to report yet, in regards to the installation of the poles and overhead wires? Have a good day, sir.
Wed, 05-08-2013 18:40
Thanks for the update! I still don't understand why Commonwealth #5 was removed from service. Do you know why?
Tue, 05-07-2013 09:28
Mr. Kolanowski.....I was just wondering if the Spaulding webcam will be up and running soon for us stay-at-homes. Thanks!2FP
Mon, 05-06-2013 23:04
Max, Has work begun yet on the construction phase of erecting the poles and putting up the wire? Wish I could be there to watch it happen.
Mon, 05-06-2013 23:02
Keep up the good work, Bob. Wish I could be there to help!!!!!!!
Sun, 05-05-2013 18:53
Ah yes, I have made such Jibs myself. If it were me, I would add in each corner an angled piece from the base to the Jib to act as sway bracing. [...]