Car Shop Report

On Wednesday I went out to the Museum to fix a few problems on the wood cars, but the trolley power was off while they work on line poles.  That makes it more difficult to get things done, such as replacing bad bulbs or testing the buzzer system.  But I'll get to it.  Meanwhile...

Here are a few interesting progress photos for current car shop projects in Barn 4.

Tim continues work on the 1268.  Here he is working on the steel underframe.

The car will be restored to its form during the Spanish Flu epidemic, with drop lower sash and upper sash raised into the ceiling to provide better ventilation.  That seems to be the best solution they could come up with at the time.  Here we see one of the upper sash in raised position:

And here the main window sash is partly lowered into the side of the car.  The window sill is hinged and lifts up to adjust the position of the window.

And here is the door motor:

Meanwhile, Fritz and a new member, Rich, are working on repairing the (front) baggage compartment of the Michigan Electric 28.

A lot of the structure of the car suffered during its many years as a cottage, but it's slowly being rebuilt to like-new condition.

 And there were several other projects in progress, but as usual I wasn't able to catch them all.