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Sunday, December 4. 2011CTS 4223 Update - December 3, 2011There was a large crew on hand, following the holiday hiatus, and we passed another milestone in the restoration tasks for the Cleveland PCC.  Parts A large number of parts had been sent out to a contractor for painting. These represent a lot of the trim and detail parts removed for repairing the body and getting that painted. Now they are back, in record time. SOME of them are seen staged in the shop in the above view. More are expected later this week.  Front Bumper In short order, Eric Lorenz and Alex Randow turned to the task of starting to install them. Tricky business, and you almost had to be a circus contortionist, but the front bumper was installed. Actually there are three such pieces.  Rear Bumper Before I knew it the rear bumper parts were appearing on the car. Eric and Alex watch as Nancy Ring tests the location of the rear retriever mounting ring.  Side Windows Several volunteers spent some time during the day continuing to clean up and restore the myriad of side window sash. Julio Mojica joined the crew scrubbing off years of corrosion and dirt, and Alex and Nancy put in some time there also.  Lower Side Sash As each sash resumes wearing its clean bright finish, we are applying a protective clear coat. Nancy tried her hand at that, and perhaps six were so coated by the end of the day. The remarkable changes to the appearance of the car are giving the project team a big boost, and those following the progress admire the transformations. Thursday, December 1. 2011BN 9908 progress
On Tuesday night, Kyle M worked to remove some additional rot spots on the engineers side of the nose. This takes some time since there are a few layers of steel skin and angle iron supports to cut through, and not hit anything behind it all. Meanwhile I started to weld some new steel supports around the firemans side nose, along with adding some support to the side of the mount for the cab signal box. A new sheet has been cut to wrap around that side, and will be fitted and installed in the coming days. There are many more photos available than are shown in this blog, and are shown here with the most recent being shown first. This photo album will more than likely be updated more often than the blog, but we'll do our best to keep both up to date.
Thursday, December 1. 2011Wood Shop Update - November 30, 2011 Stanchions Frank Sirinek and Mike Alterio have been working to reconstruct a fairly elaborate system of stanchions and railings on the two Chicago & West Towns 141 platforms. Frank has a handful of very special fittings and each pipe is custom cut and threaded to fit.  Windows Tim Peters with some of the recently completed windows for CRT 1797. Of course no window is really complete until painted, glazed and installed in the car. But he continues to fit and fine tune, add details to these sash. Maybe I should just use the word WINDOWS to caption each photo - I think there was work on windows for no fewer than seven different car projects in the shop yesterday.  Framed Henry Vincent continues to lead work on creating displays. Here he is painting some trim molding to frame one of his recent constructions.  Mortising John Faulhaber is doing the mortising for two new windows for the passenger car, GLEN SPRINGS.  Framed, Again In almost record time, Rich Witt and John display two fitted frames, ready for gluing. And in fact, that happened and was accomplished by the end of the work day.  Windows Victor Humprheys was painting the interior sides of four new windows for N&W 2050. These were fairly tricky to make for us, although I am sure a journeyman cabinetmaker of a century ago, dealt with these routinely.  Parts Parts for windows, that is. Simon Harrison, Roger Kramer, and Richard Witt are thickness planing a large pile of parts - for windows! These are destined to become nine new sash for a passenger car, Illinois Central 3996.  Pullman Window Roger Kramer has completed a sash for our Pullman car INGLEHOME. It sure will look good installed in that car. |
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Was the CB&Q 1309 every transported to IRM?I’ve been reading old issues of Rail&Wire and the car was mentioned several times.
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Nice to see 428's cab back on. Looking forward to when it is operable!
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