Electric Car Department

Hello all, and here's a few things that have happened over the weekend in the Electric Car Department.

CNS&M 749 got some wire replaced in the Battery Charging Circuit Box. Because this car has been modernized, with electric conductor bells, the batteries have to be kept charged, so work has been done to make sure they do charge. The grids were replaced for that circuit last year, but this year, the wires that are missing the insulation have been replaced. There will be some pictures of this showing up in the Member Photo Gallery on Joe Stupar. (But their not there yet).

CTA 3142 has had it's brake beam put back in and set correctly, as well as some more work on the line switch.

The Michigan car has had more work done on the roof and tack molding. This is part of the long process it takes to get a roof ready for the canvas. Of course, once the canvas is on, it's a long process to get it all weighted down, tacked on, and painted.

Work on the doors continues on the PCC car that's in the Barn 4 work area. These cars, being all metal and running on salted streets, seem to have a lot of metal work to be done. It's moving along which is always a good thing.

We have taken the air tanks from the TMER L10 over to the steam shop, and when they run the hydro machine next for their own tanks, they'll run these two for us. Much thanks in advance to the Steam Shop for this.

Rusted air pipes are being replaced on the Baldy 4000 series CTA car that is also in barn 4. These pipes have to be cut, then bent to the correct angles (and let me tell you, if you don't do this often, you always need a practice pipe to work on to get the bends right); then they get threaded on the end.

The Lake Shore Electric 810 box car had some more work done to it. The air system is slowly being returned to it's appropriate spots.

There was also a board meeting, the last one with this configuration, on Saturday.  As always, if there was other work being done, please comment it below. And if you see there are some comments; please read them :)

Respectfully Submitted,
Joel Ahrendt