Tuesday Report

As usual, even a weekday is busy in Barn 4.  We had several projects going forward at high speed, so fasten your seatbelts and stay tuned.

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 There are holes in the roof at both ends, and before we can think about new canvas they need to be patched in a permanent fashion.  We'll start with the #1 (east) end, with a big hole punched out by a trolley pole at Cleveland.

John Sheldon let me borrow his little battery-powered circular saw, which made quick work of cutting a nice straight edge through the roof boards: 

By the way, now you can see some of the piping and electrical conduits up inside the attic.

And at the #2 end, pretty much the same thing on this side:

I cut it out also.   At this end the carline was also broken, so that will take more work.

So we'll start on the #1 end.  I cut out and shaped a piece to support the roof boards at the top.  Luckily, it's not far from the roof booth to the sander and band saw in the shop.

And then another piece to attach to the bottom rail, for added support.  The roof boards here at the end will have quite a bend to them.  That will be the next project.  I also removed more old canvas and tacks from the tack molding to finish the day.

By the way, our old friends Dick Lukin and Larry Goerges were visiting. 

And here they are, getting a tour of the 1754 from Bill:

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The 1754 is rapidly nearing completion.  Once the replacement motor truck has been rebuilt, that will be installed under the car, but in the meanwhile the current motor truck is functional.  Tim has been installing new car cards, among other things. 

We looked at the coasting clock:

And tried out the communicating gong:

Bill helped with various things, such as painting the contactor box covers:

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Here we see Norm Krentel cleaning paint from one of the cast glass upper sash.

Norm and Rich were working all day; Rich was making new window sills.  They look great.

And Norm uncovered the original front dash plate, which had been covered over:

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John Sheldon was working on the 306 all day, but this seems to be the only picture I took of it.

Parts

Last time I took home a GE control jumper to repair, as it had an open wire.  I've fixed these before, as described in detail here.  But on this one, I was unable to get either of the Bakelite frames out of the metal sockets, because they've been bent out of shape.  So it was left in the shop, in hopes that the second shift will be able to remove them for me.