Wood Shop

There was a lot of work all around the site today.

Trolley Base

Rich Witt is cleaning old paint and rust from a trolley base, destined to float up to the roof of Cleveland Transit System 4223.  This is the style often seen on modern PCC cars, but a lot different from the bases used on many of the vintage trolleys.  By end of day it was clad in gray primer.  Lorne Tweed and Henry Vincent were seen carrying other parts to the roof of the car for installation, and earlier, Rich applied insulating varnish to the interior of the rebuilt fuse box.

NYCTA

The Wednesday Special Projects group has been laboring almost all summer on body repairs to the pair of NYCTA Redbird cars.  It is under-reported but here is a shot showing the extensive sheet metal and structural work.  A lot of those cars suffered a lot of rust out and other damage, much of which was hidden under gallons of body filler applied while they were still in service.

Bill Leider continues to lead another group to repainting our MILW 1309 baggage car.

And of course other work was seen in the shop areas.  Pete Galayda and John Nelligan are continuing the never ending work to restore seven resistance grid boxes for Charles City Western 300.  And Buzz Morisette was making some fairly complicated lintel/drip moldings for installation over the doorways on our MILW X 5000 dynamometer car.