Wood Shop

Windows

Rich Witt was sanding old finish off of a window being restored for CA&E 36, and pitched in and gave advice on many other projects.

Cleveland

Henry Vincent worked on two light assemblies for the Cleveland PCC, CTS 4223.  Earlier, Mike Alterio had done a welding repair on one of the rear bumper channels (on the bench), and we worked to remove old paint and rust from that and a roof grab iron assembly.

Polishing

We would like to welcome new volunteer, Don Peterson, who got promptly to work buffing and polishing seat handles for the Sand Springs 68, and later moved to the cleaning up of some of the Cleveland parts.

New Canvas

Time Peters has been applying new canvas to the hip roof areas on CRT 1797.  From the ground, he is seen up on a lift and tucking and tacking the edges.

Brake Hangers

After some shop fabrication work by Rod Turner, Frank Sirinek was ready to install four assemblies on the trucks of Chicago and West Towns 141.  Pete Galayda and John Faulhaber were scrunched down below the car sides, installing one in this photo.

Straphangers

Frank Kehoe was out early and painted three racks of straphanger loops and support pipes.  These are removed from CRT 1797 and had been cleaned and ready to paint.  It is amazing how another set of helping hands makes the progress much faster.

Caulking

Speaking of another set of hands, Tim Peters was hit by a car last week, suffering a broken arm and other cuts and bruises.  Nevertheless he was on site caulking window sills on the CRT 1797.  It was his left arm!

Orange Paint

And later on there was orange finish paint going on the belt rail and letterboards.  This really snaps out the months of work and repairs, and replacing the rotted and damaged parts of the wood sides, pillars, and window trim.

Then There Was None

Virtually all the track on track 31 inside Barn 3 has had new panel track laid in.  Now the 200 feet or so or track through the door and outside have been removed.  Dave Diamond is directing Nick Kallas in the bobcat to prepare the grade.

Painting

By now you may realize that a large part of a volunteer life is painting.  Roger Kramer has cleaned and stripped old layers of failed paint from the east end of the Pullman car, John Mc Loughlin, and is seen here spray painting the new primer.

Armed with good intentions, I caught this view of John Faulhaber early in the morning.

Taking a Shine to It

John worked over several seat handles destined for Sand Springs 68 at our buffing and polishing station.  He did a good job!

Then a multitude of activities over both weekend days seemed to keep my hands busy to where no more photos got taken.

John Mc Kelvey continued faithfully reupholstering North Shore seats, and prep work continued for our upcoming hosting the national Old Wood Working Machine convention.  This is a fascinating event with clinics and demos that would interest many of you for the weekend of 9/24 and 9/25.  But sorry, it a closed event and requires pre registration.  Museum work in the wood shop area will be suspended for those two days.

Victor Humphreys took advantage of good weather and over both days, sanded and re primed about a half of boxcar side.  A LOT of work for one guy.  Some efforts were spent starting to get things ready for the upcoming Members Showcase activities.

And just like that, it was time to go home.