Freight Car Department

As mentioned in the first entry for Wednesday, it rained off and on all day and that chased us inside the shop and allowed us to continue more work inside the plow body.  This has been a long stretch of inclement weather on our regular workdays, so not as much progress on the exterior painting has been accomplished.  But the last of the old open grid steel roofwalks have been torched off and we got a lot done inside the car body.

Cupola Roof

Despite dodging raindrops, Jim Leonard was up on the roof, and down, and back up, and down, but managed to move forward on the roof of the cab cupola.

Priming

Thanks to Al Rheinschmidt (and all of the rest of the crews) for their work today.  Al primed many boards to be installed inside the CGW snowplow; all those shown here and ANOTHER batch.

New Sills

Buzz Morisette started making up two new window sills for the cupola, here jointing the boards.  There were quite a few following steps and they were ready to fit, then prime painted at the end of the day.

Floor Repair

Dave Rogan and Jim Leonard are inserting the last of the three piece floor repairs at the end of the day.  The nice white walls are the new interior lining we have been installing during our rainy weather work.  We added door trim, more siding inside, and floor stripping and cleaning and repairs today.  So much of that work will seem all but invisible to the walk by visitor, but it is no less necessary and moves the project ahead.