Monday Shop Report

 Time for another brief look at what's happening in the car shop these days...

Tim just never stops.  Here he is using the Museum's plentiful supply of clamps to assemble more of the new window frames needed by the 1808.

And here's a large pile of side windows.

Pete and Fritz continue making new doors for the 757.  In the rear, you can see one of the old doors being used as a pattern.

John has several side windows for the 306 in the process of being finished.

And here's one of the new end windows.  Because the ends were changed at Shaker, including moving the controllers, we're not sure exactly how the end windows should work in their original configuration.  The question came up as to whether you should actually be able to drop the window in front of the motorman.  

That seems unlikely to me.  And so far I haven't been able to find any pictures of 300's in service with any of the end windows dropped.

Finally, Gerry shows off some of his rebuilt electrical parts for the 306.   This is the Westinghouse lightning arrestor.

The roof fuse box and choke coil:

I was working on the trolley bases for the 460.  The department guys finished repainting all the parts for both bases, and I was able to assemble them on the car.  There are still a few things to finish up.  I somehow failed to get a picture of what I had been doing, but they look like this:

Once the weather starts to warm up, there will be an even greater variety of projects to look at, so stay tuned!