Wood Shop

Yes, there was woodworking done in the shop today, but mostly it provided some cooling relief from the brutally hot 100F PLUS temperatures.  So a lot of volunteers and their projects burrowed in and continued working.

Trolley Boards

Lorne Tweed continued working on new trolley boards for the Cleveland Transit System 4223 PCC car.  Layout work was done carefully and here he is boring the needed holes.  It is a good thing this car is single ended and we only need to do this once.

Side Repair

Victor Humphreys has been fitting and fabricating new steel plates to repair the rusted out side areas on our B&O wagon top boxcar.  If it ever cools off some, we will try to schedule a 'welding party' to place them the needed spots.

Knitting

Bill Wulfert, Rich Block, and Frank Sirinek are untangling a bale of virgin wool yarn to be measured and cut for making new waste bundles for Chicago Rapid Transit 1797.  As fast as they could make them, Tim Peters was under the car removing old pads from the axle cap bearings and stuffing these in.  Hot, uncomfortable, and DIRTY - a perfect July Fourth.

Sign of the Times

Randy Hicks is cutting some wood to assemble a frame and hang a new interpretive sign on Lake Shore Electric 150.  Efforts like this go unremarked and largely unrewarded, but it goes with the territory.  Thanks, Randy.

Base Work

Jeron Glander is grinding on a trolley base in the work to restore it for use on the CTA 2000 pair of rapid transit cars.  Ray Piesciuk and Richard Schauer supervise from a safe distance in the background.  Look for this pair (the cars, not the volunteers) to operate in the Trolley Pageant for the first time at IRM.