Wood Shop

Another series of short reports this week, but do not despair, a lot was going on in the restoration shops.

Battery Tray

Frank Sirinek has been quietly going about the business of working on Shaker Heights 63, a PCC car which was originally built for Minneapolis.  New windows have been installed, and preliminary work under the car began recently.  Here he is working on a new wooden battery tray.  The new parts are in the foreground, the old thoroughly acid destroyed tray is behind that on the bench.

Flooring

Victor Humphreys is inside the B&O wagon top boxcar working to install a new section of flooring.  In the weather conditions this summer, it is a case of working short shifts inside the car, which does a good imitation of temps only encountered in a pizza oven.  Except the boxcar has less air flow.

More Signs

Henry Vincent is making and hanging a new interpretive sign fo Illinois Terminal 101.  I bet we have hundreds of such informative signs already around the property, and each one was the labor of a committed volunteer to improve the visitor experience.