Wood Shop

No pics this week but I thought I had better make a short post to let you all know we are alive and well, and still working 'on the cause'.  Here are some of the things we saw yesterday.

Tim Peters and Charlie Strong were working on the CA&E 451, bringing badly deteriorated train doors into the shop for work.  The plan is do a quick 'patch job' to get them painted with the rest of the car, and hope for time and money to have completely new ones manufactured in the shop, at a later date.

Rich Witt continued working on a new sash for the CA&E 409, and it remains for final trimming and fitting of parts to be completed and then off to the gluing press.

John Nelligan worked on the project for five new windows for B&M 1094 and Victor Humphreys and I assembled and glued the last frame in the series.

Pete Galayda painted some sign or ad cards for the TM 972.  And he completed measurung up and listing the seats inside for future upholstery work.  All you TM fans should send in your donations now so we can proceed with this.

Max Tyms and Roger Smessaert were toiling at more electrical mysteries in the plan to add 3 phase electrical service to the Barn 4 shop addition.

Henry Vincent was seen glazing one new window and fitting another to the ends of CNS&M 757.

Gerry Dettloff and Max Tyms were working on repairs to our heavy duty welding cables.  I would not be surprised to hear that the needed parts alone will run over $500.

Roger Kramer brought some wood inside and discussed making a whole new set of windows for the IC heavyweight diner.  If funds can be raised the plan would be to do some serious restoration on this car and remove it from the Halloween Event.  My opinion only, but this would be a good move for an historic car, which has suffered wear and tear due to being used in recent years for that event.

Sitting Down

Wayne Baksic is working to resize a bench seat cushion for the CNW 7700 passenger car.  Shelly V (not pictured) also worked on this.  Wayne is a jack of all trades and earlier he helped finish up the new dust pickup and grounding for the Delta HD shaper.

The Plane Truth

The Michigan Electric 28 crew was hard at work.  Norm Krentel is behind the ductwork 'catching' stock as it is discharged from the planer.  Jeff Brady moves to grab another panel to feed in, while Wayne Baksic looks on.

There was some additional shop work, fitting was completed for window number five, now ready to be glued and destined for our B&M 1094 passenger car, and some measurement and layout work on a new door.

The Rout to Success

Victor Humprheys is setting up the router as we get a little creative in using this tool for an unusual task.

Good Supervision is Important

Randy Hicks considers the job Greg Ceurvorst is doing to sand more windows for CA&E 319.

Prime Paint

Tim Peters has made up a wheelbarrow load of new trim pieces for the new clerestory windows (now installed) on CRT 1268.  And of course they all need painting to be ready to install as time goes by.

Dust Pickup

Another of our largely invisible ongoing work tasks is maintaining the shop and tooling.  Jerry Lynn trims and fits a new custom made dust pickup hood for our Delta HD shaper.  Earlier, he installed a new duct and drop for this machine.  THANK YOU, Jerry!

And a lot of other work was noted in the shop area, in spite of me not taking time out to snap pics.  Three additional new window sash were glued by Buzz M and Victor H for the MILW 01984 caboose.  More work on a new door by Bob K and Victor H.; the new CNS&M herald applied in Barn 2 to the NS 749; work continuing on the Cleveland PCC project; retriever/catcher cleaning and rebuilding by the trolley coach department; more condiut and wiring for the new shop space addition on Barn 4; and I am sure a bunch of work I did not mention or note here.

STEAM FANS - welding of the new tube sheet patch on the front end of the Shay was being done!!!