Monday News

After all of the weekend excitement with the young guys swapping trucks and motors and switching cars around, on weekdays the shop is handed back to us retirees picking away at our various long-term projects.  And generally this system seems to work pretty well.

Tim spent the day on window frames for the 1808 again, and here we see him sanding them down:

Pete and Fritz continued to work on new doors for various North Shore cars:

I started by putting a first coat of black on the two trolley boards in the shop.  They were later turned over so both sides could be done.

On the 306, Gerry was working on refurbishing a spare fuse box to mount on the roof.  The original disappeared when the car was rewired by Shaker.  And Tim thinks that the one we'll use on the 306 was removed from the Com Ed 5, which was scrapped at North Chicago in 1964 to help pay for the move to Union.  Never let anything go to waste!  Sorry, I didn't get a usable picture of Gerry at work.

Meanwhile, John was busy fitting window frames and other parts on the car:

And I was working on the 460.  It was warm enough for caulking, so ten saddles have now been attached.  This part of the project is going well, and next time I may be able to attach the first two trolley boards.

Finally, Buzz shows off a saddle he made for a caboose.  This holds up the short running boards on one of our steel waycars.  It took him about three minutes to cut it out of a block of wood -- much simpler than the ones we have to make for interurban cars.