Passenger Car Department

The rear of exhibit car is looking very good. Mike, Kevin, Mark, and Shelly worked on tasks to complete the car's interior.

Kevin Kriebs used a wire wheel to start on the west vestibule of 2nd Exhibit Car. Shelly Vanderschaegen and Jon Habegger cleaned main room of the car. Curator Mike Baksic and Mark Gellman worked on east end of the car. They installed 4 new air vents for the air conditioning system, and wall molding on north exhibit wall. It was another snow day

Kevin Kriebs removing loose paint

Mike Baksic working on the door

2nd Exhibit car - looking forward

2nd Exhibit car - looking to the rear exit

Ely update Jan 2014 from Buzz Morisette:

Emergency roof repairs done sometime in the 80’s(?) made the roof watertight but were not quite a restoration. The dining room ceiling has now been properly repaired and re-framed to match the original curve of the roof. Wood backings to mount the original light fixtures, removed during roof repairs, are also back in place.

Next step is to replace the conduit and wiring to those light fixtures. Shelly is starting to strip the fixtures for restoration.

The Baltic Birch plywood purchased last year is primed and ready. Looking for warmer inside work I refinished the Mahogany corner bead that will go in last. Not all of it was there with ceiling work done over the years so new trim needed to be milled. Victor Humphres of the Freight shop located some Honduran Mahogany stock for us and I ran off about 30’ of the replacement trim.

The picture below shows front to back new, refinished, and original finish trim.

Front to back: new, refinished, and original finish trim