Not many pictures from Wednesday, I was too busy. Like all of the others. But a lot got done on the next third rail beam, as seen here. Fritz in particular was a great help in several parts of this process, including cutting the notch into the beam. Tim helped too.
I've been dealing with these things for a long time, and they are heavy. We both remember the time back in 1998 when Frank and I drove out to Orbisonia to pick up two beams from the 315 that the trolley museum didn't need. They were heavy then, but they're even heavier now. This can only be due to some principle of physics with which I am unfamiliar. For instance, I don't see how string theory could explain it.
Be that as it may, we're having some unusual weather in Barn 4. Tim reports:
Look what the wind blew in!!
Just pull back the curtain, and the 28 starts rolling east. Norm has to jump out of the way! Luckily no one was hurt, and the car was brought to a stop and secured. Whew! Watch this space for further developments.
As I say, I didn't get many pictures of the other projects. Gregg continued to work on the 109.
I hope that some day a section of third rail as used on the Great Third Rail can
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As we mentioned, Ted, we're planning to have a third rail along the east side of the 50th Avenue platform. That track is used only by cars that operated on the Chicago L: rapid transit, North Shore, CA&E.
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