Cleveland Transit System 4223

I have a number of images for one project today, Cleveland Transit System 4223, a PCC car.  Lorne Tweed took several of these so I will split this weeks news into two BLOG entries

Switch Cabinet

Dave Diaz is painting a new switch cabinet for the car.  It has been fabricated new, and a lot of prep work has gone into adding the needed attachments and holes for mounting under the front dash of the car.

Left Rear

The next few images were taken inside the car, left side rear.  We have all the panels and trim for the car, but they have been out of it for many years.  It is like trying to do a jigsaw puzzle without benefit of the picture on the box.  Wise advice to budding restorationists:  Take a lot of pics, mark each piece where it came from with a paper tag, and write the id on each piece.  Surely one of those pieces of information will be lost to memory or time.

Wall Panel

There are wide wall panels to be mounted below the row of standee windows and above the ordinary passenger windows.  Simon Harrison is holding the first one, working from the rear to front on the left side.

Upper Trim

Simon Harrison is now fitting a piece of trim above the row of standee windows.  Many of these pieces appear to be the same, but have subtle differences, different hole patterns.  You really need to lay out and sort out each group of pieces.

Side Windows

In the shop the seemingly endless task of preparing the side windows, passenger windows, goes on.  For this car there is an upper and lower for each opening.  Simon is applying a clear protective finish to the cleaned aluminum frames, in this case one of the lower sash.