More of Everything

The first thing to do was to reposition a bracket on the roof of the 277. I then started working on the trolley pole in the shop. With some help from Bob Heinlein and Dan Bixler, we removed the old shoe, fixed up some of the parts, installed new shunts, and put it all together.

Then I did more painting on the interior. The rear of the main compartment has an aisle between the heater compartment on one side and the toilet compartment on the other. I put a finish coat on all the sheet metal parts. It's difficult to take good pictures in this confined space, so I hope these before and after pictures help.

The next project was to mop the linoleum floor in the main compartment, and then apply two coats of wax. Again, this is hard to photograph. But it looks much better and helps protect the historic linoleum.

I also found the right ladder and installed several more screws to hold the lobster trap in place. The 277's rope guard is missing, so we'll have to have a new one fabricated, but it's a fairly complicated assembly. But the lobster trap will serve temporarily as a rope guard to keep the trolley rope from rubbing on the bottom of the canvas.

In other activities, Stan and Warren moved the recently-arrived trucks for the South Shore line car into Barn 8.







And here's some inter-departmental cooperation, as the 3007's bell is mounted for a photo op later in the day.

The 3007 and some other Burlington equipment were posed out on the station tracks in the afternoon. This just wouldn't be complete without a picture of other railfans taking pictures....

In crime news, I noticed that somebody had pulled the 309's pole out from under the hook. But because the rope was securely cleated to the retriever, the crooks were baffled and no harm was done. This just shows how important it is to cleat the trolley ropes when cars are stored in the barn, per Car Department policy.

So I called the Union cops, the state police, and the FBI. They're hard at work on the case, and arrests are expected soon.