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Monday, April 26. 2010Chicago Rapid Transit 1268 - April, 2010Thanks to Pete Pedersen who has taken and volunteered these photos for a tour of the work on CRT 1268. You have seen single shots of work in progress in our shops, but these are all taken on or in the car itself.  New Seat Handles  Door Decal  In Barn 4  Interior in Progress  Door Engine  Sign Box Monday, April 26. 2010Wood Shop Update - April 25, 2010 Back In the Saddle Again Joel Arndt is making some new saddles for the CA&E 460. These are 'temporary' in nature to allow the roof and trolley base area to be serviceable.  Get a Handle on It Tim Peters continues the major restoration project on CRT 1268. He has been removing seat handles, stripping years of paint and crud, buffing them back to bright brass, and clear coating them, as seen here.  Station Door We are in the beginning stages of a new Wood Shop project. Here you see an old and decrepit door on our depot. There are seven other doors of a different panel design and layout so we presume this was a stand in or replacement door installed maybe 40 years ago after the depot came to Union. It has definitely seen better days.  Better Door Here you see an example of the more 'standard' type of door design in use and found in our depot. I say 'better' with some reservations but certainly better from the standpoint of being period accurate and more consistent. So the plan is to try to construct and fabricate a new door, determine the designs, and effort to reproduce this design. In the future some of the other doors may also see replacement.
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