Frank writes...
Sunday was very hot, but I still managed to get a few things accomplished. First, I removed the last couple of the seats in the 451 and also took the leatherette antimacassars off the seats my father had previously removed. This final batch of about half a dozen seats are now ready to go to the upholstery shop. And the exciting news from Jon is that the shop has finished the previous batch and they're ready to come back! So, there's a lot of progress on this front. I didn't take any photos, I'm afraid.
The exciting news, though, was that Nick and Joel were assembling pallet racking in the Barn 4 extension. These are new-to-us steel sections that have been restored by the weekday guys. Above, Nick runs down a rolling scaffold while Joel stands back.
The racks were built slightly out from the wall for ease of assembly - but how to shove them up tight to the wall? Aha! Let the machines do the work: Joel figured out he could use the motorized pallet lifter and a block of wood to shove the racking back.
And here's the result: a whole lot of storage space. We still need to add the actual shelves, which will be made up of whatever 2x4s/2x6s/2x8s we can scavenge or buy cheap, and these will also get bolted to the floor for security. The next step will be to build a mirror image of this line of shelves (well, slightly shorter) on the other side of this same wall, in the eastward extension of the shop lean-to. In the middle-left foreground you can see some of the grey-painted parts that will be used for that project. In the far left foreground is Bob.
In other news, ComEd 4 is back in service following a successful test of its rebuilt grid box on Wednesday; Gregg was working on painting more interior parts in the 277; and Jim Ward was showing around a couple of visitors from the Western Railway Museum.
6 comments:
Great job on the storage spaces!
Question: What specific type of paint are you using on 63? The same on the others , correct?
Pete
For shelving on the pallet rack, many places are using a heavy duty wire mesh that fits over the front and back lateral beams of the pallet rack. This can both be used as a deck for loose boxes and large parts, as well as providing a secure landing for pallets. The challenge with wood is that if you set the edge of a heavy pallet on it, it might break and dump everything. You might be able to find the wire mesh used out there from pallet rack companies. Not as cheap as leftover lumber, but more durable and safer. Also recommend that you get some corner protection for the rack once it is secured to the floor. That’s heavy duty steel that bolts to the floor and keeps the vertical beams from getting damaged by fork trucks, carts, and other equipment.
The Shaker Rapids I remember growing up were always yellow.
Once it's loaded, most of the loading and unloading will be done by a order selector as there will be a car there, blocking fork access. As for the wire shelf, it would be nice, and we might change in the future, but I don't have the funds now for it.
The Shaker Heights cars were all painted yellow until about 1975 and some remained yellow until the end of the PCC era. Our car was one of 20 painted vermilion around 1975, and in its current condition with modernized doors but no pantograph, the vermilion livery is accurate.
Thanks, Pete! Yes, we are using Sherwin-Williams Industrial Enamel on the PCC, which is what we're using for most of our paint jobs these days.
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