Monday Shop News

As long as travel isn't hazardous or impossible, work continues through the week in our heated Car Shop facilities, as you probably know by now.

The final thing to be done in the shop on the trolley boards for the 460 was to drill the crosswise holes for attaching the grab iron.  This requires the large drill press, with a 6" throw.  When finished, it looks like this.

Fritz later helped me carry the final two boards out into the barn and place them on the scaffolding.

You get one guess as to what Tim was doing all day.

Pete and Fritz were working on a side door for the 757.  It really looks nice.  This, of course, is the outside of the door.

And here they are checking the placement of the guides for the drop sash on the inside of the door.

John continues working on windows and other parts of the 306.

Once it warmed up in the barn, I installed some more saddles and did some caulking and painting.

Structural work on the west 1/3 of the roof is pretty much complete, apart from installing the trolley base, of course.

And then we need to protect the horn from either being hit by the pole or annoying the neighbors.

  That baffle is sort of dumb, if you ask me.  What I think they should have had is a trumpet mute on a hinged arm, so that the motorman could pull a string and raise it into place as needed, just like a swing band musician, for instance.  Hey, it worked for Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey!