Illinois Railway Museum Blog

Here is the Saturday report now, with a short Sunday report in the planning as a coming attraction.

Frames

Buzz Morisette has all ten new caboose windows glued up.  They look enough in this image like picture frames, so maybe we should start a small side business.  We ran all ten through the Berlin sander for finish sanding, cut the stile extensions, and then Buzz was fussing with edge and details of the finished sash.

Infeed End

To get the caboose windows to that stage, and the sash for the 409, here are four late arriving photos form Greg Cuevorst (thanks Greg).  First, a shot of me feeding a sash into the Berlin sander.

Outfeed

Victor Humphreys was the 'catcher' removing sanded frames from the discharge.

Inspector General

Buzz M. inspected each frame after each pass and returned them to me as needed for another pass.

Framed

Rich Witt has his completed CA&E 409 frame and was doing the touch up and final trimming.  Earlier, we removed this from the glue press, finish sanded it through the Berlin sander, cut the stiles, rabbetted three sides, and added a 45 degree bevel - all to reproduce the original deteriorated sample.

Rare Shot

A rare shot of Randy Hicks giving more CA&E 319 windows some tlc.  Not rare that he is actually working, but he is usually the one behind the camera!

Tenon Trimming

Victor Humphreys is trimming the tenons to fit on our very old Delta 14 inch bandsaw.

Near Days End

Rich Witt puts some finishing touches on the new sash for the CA&E 409.  Behind him you can spy out Victor Humphreys working on the first dry assembly of the door.