There's nothing quite like cold weather for helping focus one's mind on working inside to stay warm!
Here is the last section of the upper wall, now with a finish coat of butterscotch paint.
And this included the wainscoting, the walls below the window sill. I still need to repaint the arm rests with the wall color, and touch up the window sills, which are black.
Finally, I started putting a finish coat on the ceiling, as seen here. This should work out pretty well. It appears that the ceiling panels will look fine after one repainting, without any filler or other special surface prep.
Last time I mentioned that the Jewett cars were built with cab doors. Here are the door latches on the bulkhead and on the side. Notice on the left that the grab iron would prevent the cab door from opening into the vestibule, as it must have in order for the motorman to get in or out.
Tim Peters was also hard at work today, as usual. He's making great progress on the sliding doors for the 1797.
Rod has rebuilt the switches for the door controls, as seen here. The one on the right has a new nylon sleeve. This seems like a very complicated mechanism for a low-voltage SPST switch, but that's what they had on this car. Later cars had a much simpler system, Tim says.
And Tim himself was busily painting the molding sticks for the windows when I passed through the shop.
2 comments:
Is there any information on what the cab doors for the 316-321 series looked like?
Not that I know of. I've never seen any pictures. Probably fairly simple, like the NS cars, I should think. And I don't know when they were removed.
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