Wood Shop

CE 4

This weekend, with help from longtime member and hardworking volunteer Dick Lukin, we applied lettering to one side of the cab of our electric workhorse locomotive.  Of course the piece is parked inside Barn 8 which suffered storm damage (see related posts) and that made the work tough.  No way to even run an extension cord for a drop light from three buildings away so we labored on in the dimness.  I had to post this poor pic to prove the work done.  Imagine taking a pic of a black subject in a dark building and maybe you will understand the blur.

Depot Door

With help from Tim Peters, there was some progress on the parts being made for a new depot door.  It looks like the next steps will be to plunge the needed mortises.

Another Door

Speaking of Tim, the heavy rains Sunday morning drove him away from other life pursuits and here he was, working on an end door from the next project.  You guessed it, a wood el car, Chicago Rapid Transit 1797.

Tending Their Knitting

You might guess knitting classes were underway, but Frank Sirinek and Dan Fenlaciki were tieing new bundles of virgin wool yarn to be used for waste packing in our cars and motor bearings.

Steelwork

George Clark has stripped the bad siding from the second side of LSE 810 and he is now laying out and drilling the needed holes in a custom made Z section of structural steel.  You will note the badly deteriorated sill on the car behind him.

CAE 409

The second new signbox box wood sash has been installed on the CA&E 409 and Frank Hicks is engaged in applying the final coat of red paint.

CAE 451

Jon Fenlaciki continues on the task of removing side windows from the CA&E 451 and restoring them to their brass finish.

Door Painting

Norm Krentel and Jeff Brady pause for a photo op in the new shop addition.  The now completed baggage doors have been moved in and they are getting set to spray paint the primer coat on these.