Multi-tasking Saturday

Another busy Saturday has come and gone, with lots of activity on several fronts.  Without our heated shop area, pretty much everybody would have stayed home.  I'll try to organize these by project.

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John Sheldon is making excellent progress on a complete restoration of the Fox River car from the floor up, with intermittent help from others.   Here's a recently cleaned-up seat frame:

And new wood for the floor.  These are large, heavy pieces.

But we have the tools, we have the talent:

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The Cleveland PCC group are working on rebuilding the second truck.  Here Chuck Meter and Ed Woytula are carefully lifting an axle assembly (actually, I'm not sure what the official names are for all these different parts of a PCC truck!)

And Eric Lorenz is cleaning up the motorman's switch assembly.  This will be familiar to anyone who's ever operated the 4391:

And Chuck continues needle-chipping everything.  It's a nasty job.

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Tim continues work on the interior, with brand new seat backs:

Bill and Victor take a break from their work on parts for the Pennsy bobber.  

Keith continues to clean and polish whistles.

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Jon Fenlaciki was working on windows for the Indiana car:

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I did some more work on trying to debug one of the heater circuits, without notable success.  The parts are located inside this tiny closet, and at least I determined a couple of things that aren't the problem.  I also replaced a couple of parts in the MG control box.

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And while sorting out parts, I found that the 451 had all four hoses for the sleet scrapers at the bottom of a pile.  It will be a while before we build all new third rail beams for the steel cars, so I decided to take these hoses over to the 36, so at least all of our wood cars have them in place.

On the 36, not only were the sleet scrapers removed, but the big conduits for the third rail wiring were torched off, so it will take some work to replace the electrical connections.  But this is modest progress, at least.

And of course, there was more going on that I missed.  At a minimum, Bill Wulfert was working on various spare parts, and Joel and Dan worked on the 141.  As I keep saying, you just had to be there in person.