Wood Shop

Panels

Victor Humphreys measures carefully for the panels that will be made for the new station door.  They have been glued up and fabricated in recent weeks, and now is the time to make sure they will fit.  By end of day, all four were cut and planed, ready for the next step.

Roof Boards

When is a rainy day a good thing?  Answer: on a Wednesday, preventing Tim Peters from maintaining outdoor plantings and lawn at his home - and chasing him into our wood shop.  Today, Tim was custom making tongue and groove stock to repair rotted roof boards on CRT 1797.

Design

You have seen photos here of Rich Witt serving in the capacity of engineer in our design department.  He continues ably in that purpose, here on new windows for the Glen Springs.  And he caught some details previously missed, including the fact that the left side and right side window lifts are not symmetrical to the centerline of the sash.  Who would have thunk?

He Has Brass

Before Simon Harrison could continue restoring brass window latches for the Sand Springs 68, Henry Vincent helped repair some problems with the 1934 DELTA drill press we were using.  Once back in service, Simon continued the task of removing old lacquer and decades of oxidation and tarnish.

Our century plus old 16 inch jointer required some maintenance and it is running much better now, thanks to Rod Turner and Tim Peters.

Dave Diamond and the B&G crew continued on the Depot Street repaving and are digging and installing power conduits and manhole vaults.  It just keeps getting better and better.  Inspections continued on the electric cars with our father and son team from the Hicks family doing their thing on one of their favorite CA&E wood cars, the 319.  And the crew working on the NP 230 baggage car continues to make progress with a lot of gray primer applied to the north side when it quit raining and dried off later in the afternoon.

Roof Eave

We will start this entry with Tim Peters making what I would call the upper roof eave or edge for CRT 1797.  This started out a week ago or so as some of the century old timber we salvaged from the Huntley Feed mill.

Planing

Yes, all you readers here will have seen pictures of our planer making wood chips.  But here is one for a new project.  Lorne Tweed ran 16 pieces through multiple passes to exactly 'nail' the thickness for new window frames for the GLEN SPRINGS.

More Brass

Victor Humphreys continued to help out on polishing brass parts for the Sand Springs 68.  In his hands are one 'before' and one 'after'.

A Closer Look

Drat, a fuzzy image!  But maybe you can still appreciate the mirror-like finish after some tedious work with compound and a buffing wheel.  He completed five window lifts, and we coated them with clear lacquer.  For the benefit of the 68, you should all hope for continued cold and rainy weather - it makes a good shop project.

The next step for the station door involved machining and gluing up stock for the last two panels for this new door.  We managed that, and some shop maintenance work as well.

I am going to continue to mix topics of interest in here, as generally they may not have enough of a series of pics or back story to stand on their own in a separate BLOG entry.

Panels

But true to the header, we will start with continuing progress on woodwork related projects.  Victor Humphreys and Lorne Tweed have glued and assembled the second panel for the new station door.

Finish Work

Victor Humphreys is working on touch up and repair of some divots on the frame, and you will see gray primer has been applied to all the rabbets where the raised panels will be installed.  Those panels 'float' in the grooves and are NOT GLUED in place.  This allows them to expand and contract with seasonal changes.  But therefore, all edges on the panels and in the door must be sealed and painted before the final gluing of all frame pieces takes place.

Brass Shop

Pete Galayda examines a shiny polished brass window latch while Simon Harrison uses a felt wheel and buffing compound to work on another.  If you look close you can see this mirror like polish glinting into the camera. These are latches and hardware destined for installation in Sand Springs 68.

Layout

Here are some pieces of a large scale 1:24 model railroad layout that has been donated to IRM by a long time friend and supporter who has had to relocate his residence.  Henry Vincent was instrumental in doing the grunt work of driving across three states to pick this up.

That Did Not Take Long

We reported in an earlier BLOG ENTRY that it seemed that repairs would soon be underway on Depot Street.  A few days later and several feet of paving have been broken up and are being removed.  The connection to the wood shop subject is that several volunteers access the shop over this street.  A word to the wise should be sufficient!