Wood Shop

Brick Mold

Lorne Tweed is making some progress on the project for the Steam Shop.  This is to be a mold to cast a specialized piece of refractory firebrick to serve as the arch or top piece in a rivet forge.

Running Boards

Pete Galayda is now making running boards which mount to the top of the hoods on the Charles City Western 300 steeple cab.

Window Work

Randy Hicks is involved in repainting and repairing one of the cars acquired from the Trolleyville Collection.  In this case it is Chicago Aurora & Elgin 36.  While he is working on the body in one of our Barns, he was very considerate to bring over a window for the Wood Shop to attack.  Most of the windows are in good enough shape that replacements will not have to be made.  Here, Rich Witt makes short work of sanding and removing the old layers of paint from both sides.  This is good work in our air conditioned shop if any of you wish to volunteer.  Next steps on this frame are to repair it with epoxy filler, and then sand again and prime paint it.

Plane Progress

Victor Humphreys examines new stock fresh from the planer.  That is a machine that planes thin layers of wood from thicker stock, to produce a custom thickness, as needed for almost every project.