Wood Shop

Please note that reports with this title are not all about making sawdust.  It is a communal shop space and shared freely (sometimes).

Engineering

Rich Witt works on engineering the details for the next batch of passenger car windows in the shop cue.  It is always a good idea to have a plan and know what to do, and in this case Rich found a conflict and proposed a good solution.  Other window work proceeded for passenger cars.  Two new sash for the Glen Springs, were a loose pile of incomplete parts a week ago, and by today fitted, glued, and finish sanded.

ATSF 1400

Buzz Morisette is building new replacement windows for the captioned wood caboose.  AND - he has raised the money to buy those supplies and materials.  Of course it is not too late for you to help with a donation to this project.

CRT 1797

The twenty two new windows being fabricated for this car by Tim Peters move ahead.  All of those were processed through our Berlin Sander (along with two additional sash) in about an hour.  It does a great job, and saves an ENORMOUS amount of time.  A few years ago we would be considering it an accomplishment to assemble and finish two new windows in a two months.  Yet we moved significantly ahead on 24 in a single morning.  In the above image, Tim is trimming off the extensions of the side stiles.  Just as on the originals, the sash are assembled with these extensions to protect against handling and make the assembly easier.  Then they are simply and quickly trimmed back using a jig and the tablesaw.

Molding Cutters

John Naglich brings over more molding knives while Victor Humphreys begins to clean a cabinet to store them.  This collection of railroad molding profile knives has been in the museum for years, but is now finally taking its place in the wood shop.  Victor also painted four new sash for the N&W 2050 steam locomotive.  There is a separate entry for a lot of work on the Cleveland PCC and oddly enough for early December, temperatures were mild enough to allow some more lettering work on our GN hopper.  Mike Stauber and Frank Sirinek continued on restoration work on one truck for our TM 972 streetcar.