New Old Doors

 My main project recently has been trying to make three new rattan seat backs for the 36, as seen here in the basement from a couple of days ago.

On Saturday I took it out to the Museum for a test installation.  This didn't get very far because the 600 was off for some reason and that made it difficult to shed much light on the subject.  Here's a fuzzy flash picture of the new back, which I took back home to modify for mounting.  

But I found the reason the 600 was off: the main project was replacing the barn doors on the west end of track 42.  So I joined the group and helped out the rest of the day.  Much of the time I was unable to take any pictures, but here are a few in-progress shots.  One of the old doors has been removed and is lying on the ground:

The replacement doors were taken from the old east end of Barn 4.  Here the first one is arriving:

Smile for the camera!

Let's all agree on exactly what we do next....

We had three platforms in use; without them this job would be impossible.

 The new door had to be trimmed to fit.

And here, the second new door is being prepared, while the old one is still in place.

The second door went much faster, so few pictures of the rapid progress.

And by the end of the day, both new doors were functional.

The B&G guys put in a great deal of effort to accomplish this, along with a few of us from the Car Department.  It was fun to work on one of these large group projects again.