Wood Shop

Slowly, a bit at a time, I am trying to catch up with these BLOG entries.  Maybe now I am only two weeks in arrears, although there are some 'extra' days scheduled at IRM again this week.  Here is a short summary of the restoration work in Barn 4.

Those who follow along with these posts will recall the wood shop forces making round top windows for our classic Boston and Maine wood passenger car, last winter.  Ted Anderson has done us one better.  Here is our frame, with a new leaded glass assembly.  Won't this look nice painted and varnished, installed in B&M 1094?

Bill Peterson helped make these pieces of new roof molding for Chicago Aurora a& Elgin car 36.

Lorne Tweed wrestled with this seemingly simple piece of curved trim to finish out the rear left side window on our PCC, Cleveland Transit System 4223.  I learned a few new words as the stubborn piece was in, and out, and in again, and out again,  . . .

John Faulhaber, Lorne Tweed, Dave Rogan, and Simon Harrison then turned their efforts to lifting and installing the rear large panel in the CTS 4223 ceiling.

Our Dynamic Duo, John Faulhaber and Gerry Dettloff, continue working new canvas on the west end of Lake Shore Electric 810.  These last two photos are from Gerry, and I may have another one not yet uploaded.  So if the next BLOG entry seems to have material out of sequence, NO - we are not moving backward in time.

John Faulhaber has an iron from home ( I hope not) and he is smoothing the puckers and shrinking them in on the new canvas on Lake Shore electric 810.