Wood Shop

I spent a lot of time this weekend on admin chores, meetings, things which disrupted my plans to take more pics.

Windows

Victor Humphreys is working on a new engineer's cab window for Norfolk & Western 2050.  The new fireman's window is complete except for parts we are waiting for from the Steam Department.  Buzz Morisette helped out in the afternoon and much of the tricky work is done.

Pressing Work

Jeff Brady is at our hydraulic press with a brakehead for the TM 972 truck.  As we have been reporting here, new pins and bushings are being fabricated on site to renew and provide years of service for the brakes and rigging.

A Clear Picture

Ray Schmid is cleaning up the second piece of cathedral prism glass for the Michigan Electric 28 upper sash windows.  This car has paired windows for the upper sash, two windows wide.  AND it has two windows for every opening, an inner sash and an outer storm window type of sash over that inner one.  So you BLOG readers can look forward to seeing a lot of "window" entries here in the future.

Mounting

Ray and Dan Fenlaciki are mounting the cleaned glass into a previously prepared and restored wood sash frame.  Both inner and outer sash use the cathedral style prismatic art glass, but the inside of the glass for the inside sash is frosted, as compared to the conventional clear glass inside of the outer sash.  Got that?