Green Bay Car Progress

Thanks to our intrepid cub reporter, Gregg Wolfersheim, who has sent along an update of the latest news on Green Bay & Western 109, the passenger car that is still under restoration in Barn 4.

Here is the south side of the car mostly painted. This will not be the visitors side, so it isn't quite as nice as it could be. A little bit more work along the sill will finish it.

We see Jack trying to repair the north side sill area. At some point in the car's life, someone tried to repair it. Most of their work is rotted out now. What remains below it isn't much better.

At the west end of the north side, Jack was able to repair the sill. Here it's in fresh white primer.

In the middle of the car, the sill is starting to look better. This is the same area pictured earlier with Jack doing his magic.

Close up of what we're dealing with.

Back to the south side we see the bull nose edge of the sill. As built, the nose was integrated into the sill board as one piece. We don't have the time to replicate that right now. So, we're adding it by splitting a dowel rod into 2 half rounds. We then glue and nail one half to the edge of the sill board. A little epoxy to fill any imperfections, prime and paint!