Tuesday Report

After the dampened excitement of Vintage Transport, it's time to get back to our regular programming.  I was working on the roof of the 460 again, mostly filling holes with epoxy, sanding it down, and so on.  You've seen all this before.  So I only have one photo of what I was doing.  But that's OK - I don't want this blog to be all about me.  At least not all the time.

And it turns out that the Most Interesting Project Trophy for today was won by the 1808.  First, we see a long set of new tongue and groove boards ready for installation as new siding.  

Gerry was working again on grinding and welding the various metal parts of the end.

Inside, Mike the new guy was busily needle-chipping seat frames.

And Frank Kehoe was also at work on various parts.

It may not be obvious, but here all three of them are visible.  And they were all hard at work, even in the owner's absence.

In fact, I was told that they get more done when Tim isn't there.  Of course, they might have been joking about that.   Around here, who can tell?

Here we see Frank needle-chipping truck parts.

And another view of Mike working on seat frames.

When you have two needle-chippers going in the barn, it sounds like a boiler factory.

Meanwhile, John Sheldon continued to work on wood parts.  The roof of the 306 looks great, and here you can clearly see the ventilators installed in place.

On the 460, there is one section of tack molding that will have to be replaced.  I carefully chiseled out the bad wood, took measurements, and will make the replacement piece at home.

And in the effort to be a good citizen, I moved the 460 parts from the wood shop to my shelf in the Lean-3 as promised.

Finally, it's time for the Poetry Corner.  As you have read, the John Greenleaf Whittier arrived recently, and it's now in Yard 10 being cleaned up inside.  It's rough, but better than some of our other Pullman cars that have already been restored.  So the stalwart members of the Passenger Car Department are not discouraged.  And that well-known expert on everything, Nick Kallas, happened to be there and loudly proclaimed that it was "very nice".  Who's going to argue with that?