Monday in Brief

 A brief report on just some of the things accomplished in the car shop on Monday.

Pete and Fritz are continuing to make new parts for the ME 28 interior.  It's really going to look great.

Tim, of course, was working on the 1268.

I started to cut out the big notch on the third rail beam.  It's more work than I remembered, and I quickly regretted ever mentioning the subject.

I owe a lot of thanks to Buzz and Fritz for helping make the necessary cuts.  It was then smoothed out with epoxy.  The geometry of this is rather interesting.  I'm planning a better solution for the next beams.

Finally, I drilled the mounting holes.

And now I get to start installing the cast-steel hardware, which will have to be cleaned up first.   All this trouble and expense, and we don't even have any third rails to scrape.