Tuesday was another busy day at the Museum, at least in the Car Shop, so pull up a chair!
On the 460, I started by getting the lumber for the last two trolley boards from the barn into the shop, as well as moving the ones painted last time onto the roof. The last two were cut to length and trimmed, then painted with primer.
Nearby, there are several refinished parts of the 306 that appear to be ready for installation, such as this window:
And a supply of nicely polished window latches:
And here are some boards for the 1702 that Gregg has been painting in the shop:
Later in the day I was able to get a picture of him at work.
And Jim (I hope!) continues to refinish molding strips and other wood parts for the 306.
Tim continues on windows for the 1808; here he is carefully fitting the curved quarter-rounds to one of the arched upper sash.
Gerry has been painting the new fuse box for the 306 with Glyptal:
And John is hard at work installing the various window frames and moldings in the car.
It's really starting to come together.
Meanwhile, I started attaching the trolley boards to the saddles on the 460. It's going along pretty well, although it was rather cold in the barn. The screws will be caulked whenever it's warmer, so they won't be so obvious.
And the two middle boards are in place, but not yet fastened down.
And finally, I turned the last two over and painted the other side.
Finally, we see the 757 alongside the 1808 after the cold switching adventure described earlier. You can't help noticing that this car just doesn't look right without lobster traps. But I'll fix that the next thing I do. You'll see!
Seriously, though, you won't want to miss North Shore Day on January 21st. North Shore abandonment reenactments in the distant past were handicapped by lack of heated facilities for people to retreat to during the festivities, but our campus nowadays is much better equipped to handle something like this, he said hopefully. I'm certainly going to be there, how about you?
4 comments:
Ironically the 757 is the one NSL car in preservation that *shouldn't* have roof mats. The railroad took them off as an experiment in the late 40's. Picture the red swoops that go up the ends of the 251's roof, and then imagine they continue to a point in the center of the roof rather than at the roof mat. Needless to say it was hideous and they never repeated it, but the roof mats were never reinstated on the car and it was "bald" to the end of service.
And for clarification, only January 21st is North Shore Line day. The museum will be open on Sunday the 22nd as well, but for what is being termed "Cabin Fever Day" with a diesel train or two (and maybe an encore North Shore appearance).
But the 172 and 763 both need roof mats…
Randy Stahl
I knew that, of course. But thanks for pointing out that there will be only one North Shore Day.
This only occurred to me in retrospect, but it's worth noting that this post is the 300th post of this calendar year, the first time we've achieved that milestone since the blog started back in 2008!
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