General Blog Entries

Again, here is a sampling of some of the other work I passed by during the day.

Clear Board

Volunteer Frank Carraro has been working to restore and upgrade communications equipment in our depot office.  Here, you will see a green card behind one of the bay window sash.  This represents an early form of communicating a train order to the crew of a train arriving at the station.  A yellow board and a red board are also built and can be displayed for instructing the crews.

Fuse Box

Our Cleveland PCC needs to have this fuse box restored.  It contains a ribbon fuse and is mounted on the roof just after the voltage and current are delivered from the trolley pole.  Eric Lorenz and Lorne Tweed are fitting together pieces and will be repairing and remaking some of the parts that were too water damaged to be reused.

Trolley Boards

When the rains came, we moved inside the shop and milled four new pieces of Douglas fir to be used for new trolley boards on the CTS 4223.  Lorne and Eric inspect the results.

Wagon Top

Victor Humphreys just quietly goes about the business of restoring our B&O wagon top boxcar.  Here the top panel of the door on the right side has had rust and old paint removed and has been reprimed.  Good choice of primer, huh?  Almost the same color as the rusty metal!