Wood Shop

This will only be short look around the shop yesterday, and with a number of different topics.

 

Victor Humphreys and behind him, John Faulhaber. are cutting some small beading for retaining the glazing in the new windows we are making for IC 3996.  It looks at first like a small quarter round but in this case it is assymetrical with one 1/4 inch leg and one 5/16 inch leg, just to make it interesting.  And of course we are making this custom molding out of mahogany, to match the frames.

Lorne Tweed is fitting the last of eleven new frames for this 'order', and before the day is over it will be glued up and in the press.  The next steps will include finish sanding all the frames smooth, cutting off the 'ears' on the stiles, and milling the bottom edges of each frame bottom rail.

Not never again in a bad way, but likely we will never again see the shop space addition so empty and clean.  It is now complete enough to be ready for final inspection.  Pete Galayda is at the far end, looking over the progress - and it really seems like a big space right now.

From the passenger car department, Roger Kramer has been working to locate and clean up Pullman Company shades for the DOVER STRAIT.  Won't that look nice hanging in the windows?

Lorne Tweed adds one more glued up window frame to the growing stack on the workbench behind him.  He and Rich Witt continued work on this project, gluing up two more frames, dry fitting another frame and machining parts to complete the job.

Victor Humphreys works to complete metal repairs on another of the step well end plates for caboose ATSF 1400.  He also helped to load an old planer being removed from the wood shop and sort and pack away an assortment of wood shop machine parts located and delivered by the Signal Department.  Thanks, Mike.

Buzz Morisette continued making the new patterns for the steam shop, to be used to cast shoes and wedges for the UP 428.  If you look closely you will see vertical surfaces tapered a few degrees from square.  This is the DRAFT ANGLE needed to make the sand molds and cast the metal.

Tim Peters was toiling on restoration tasks for the CRT 1797 and there was a lot of other activity.  Come on out and look around - Watchers Welcome.  Maybe we can coax you into helping if you like the smell of sawdust in the morning!

Let's start off with window work, what else?

Rich Witt has his hands full trimming one of the Villa Falls windows using our table mounted router.

And next, he doing the final finish work and sanding to complete the 'order' for two new frames for this Pullman passenger car.

Lorne Tweed continues the task of custom fitting sets of rails and stiles together for each new frame destined for the IC 3996.  In this photo he is donning the role of chemist, mixing two part waterproof glue for the next frame.  Two more frames were finished, glued up, and placed in the press.

Buzz Morisette is also the talented guy doing a lot of the artwork for lettering cars that are being restored.  Here is one of the new Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee vinyl 'decals' that were produced.  He brought along some other finished decals for the North Shore cars, and for CRT 1268.

Henry Vincent was assembling some new steel cabinets in the relatively open space of the new shop space annex.  I do not understand - I thought I was taking a good photo but Henry claims this is NOT his best side.

Victor Humphreys continued with repair and restoration of step wells for the ATSF 1400 caboose, and also did the first maintenance and inspection work of 2011 for the Freight Car Department.  He managed to drag out the air lines and test set, and exercised the brakes on caboose IT 988