Wood Shop

Glazing

Buzz Morisette has glazed several of the new windows he built for ATSF 1400 caboose.  They are a thing of beauty.  Here he is wrestling with clean up of the gooey butyl rubber compound we use in place of traditional glazing putty.  That old fashioned glazing putty hardens and shrinks, falls out and fails over time.  This stuff has stood the test of time, maintaining a flexible watertight seal for several years.  But it can be troublesome to work with.

Final Coat

With much of the cleaning behind him, Buzz is ready to add the final coat of gray interior paint to the windows.

Steam Department

Nick Kallas was visiting the shop, and Victor Humphreys is showing him the complicated joinery for a new window for Norfolk & Western 2050.  The steel plate beside the new wood parts is a 'new' discovery in the past week.  The finished wood window gets a fairly heavy sheet of metal placed over its exterior.

More Windows

Dan Fenlaciki helped glue and square up two more new windows for Illinois Central 3996 Diner.  Six are now so assembled.

Track Department

Could that caption be wrong?  No, Marcus Ruef delivered new lumber for the wood shop crew to make up new decking for two of our four wheel track cars.  Those guys just do not like to work in comfort - it has to be either too cold or too hot for them to really enjoy themselves.  So our wood shop sawdust guys will do the cutting.