Wood Shop

In addition to the work previously reported and targeted to progress on our CGW X 38 plow, here are some examples of the wide diversity of projects in the shop yesterday.

How It Stacks Up

Certainly not a glamorous job but Simon Harrison helped to stack and move the pile of new lumber to make a new door for the station.  It is useless to merely buy the lumber, it must be carefully stacked and stickered to preserve it as true as possible.

Third Rail Beams

Speaking of new lumber basically only a week old at IRM, John Faulhaber and Randy Hicks were processing some of the heavy white oak timbers through our jointer.  That is used to surface rough cut lumber to a smooth and true face and edge.  From there they moved through the planer and then the tablesaw to rip it to correct width.  Finally through the radial arm saw to cut all to length.

Windows

Jon Fenlaciki was working on restoration of a large window for our first car, Indiana Railroad 65.  In addition to meticulous removal of old finishes, the detective in him revealed the true color of the first layer of old paint, buried well below more recent layers.

Grid Shop

Pete Galyda was visited by Dick Cubbage as here they discuss how to solve all the problems.  I wonder if John Nelligan (at work on the sandblaster in the next room) knows it is break time?

And many other tasks and projects saw work.  We almost expect Tim Peters to be on hand at 120% of what any mere mortal can do and this was no exception as he sped on a time line to break all records for a new canvas roof on one of our 4000 series steel elevated cars. Victor Humphreys was outside with acetylene torch and managed to remove another badly rusted out panel on our B&O wagon top boxcar.  Henry Vincent continued work on the new table saw and was assisted in some metal machine shop work by Rod Turner.