Permanent Slatification

 Another productive day at the car shop saw several different projects being worked on by the regular weekday guys.

I continued to permanently attach the slats to the lobster trap at the #2 end, and with practice it goes pretty much like clockwork.  Here we see all of the slats installed, looking down from the top (I'm sitting on the trolley boards).  There are a few screws that didn't go in quite all the way, so they will have to be redrilled, but I decided to put that off.

And this is what it looks like from the platform.  The bottom two slats have not yet been installed in this picture.  Note that the ends are nice and even.

When we get a warm spell, I can start painting them.

And then I started on installing the bottom two slats.  The lowest one is more or less permanent.  

In these pictures, though, the second slat from the bottom is only temporarily attached, as I'm hoping that the so-called "missing tooth" will look about right to our North Shore experts.  If not, we may just have to hire an orthodontist.

But in any case that all went pretty well.

(JF)

Meanwhile, of course, the other guys were doing their thing.  Most of them were smart enough to figure out that it was much more congenial to work in the shop, and not up on the scaffold.  Here we see Frank Kehoe cleaning and polishing brass parts for the doors on the 1808.  Nice!

And Tim is varnishing one of the restored doors.

John continues work on window frames for the 306.

And the other Jon was working on the ceiling panel in the 65.  There's an arched piece that goes over the gap between the two panels seen here, so after some adjustments it should look good.

And that's not all, of course.  I could see, for instance, that there must be people working in the MPB, but I didn't make the trek to find out what they were doing.  Presumably either model railroads or the Pullman Library.