You'll be just as thrilled as the rest of us to know that restoration work on Kewaunee Green Bay & Western 64 is continuing in the Electric Car Shop! Many thanks go out to our intrepid cub reporter, Gregg Wolfersheim, who sends along this report of progress on our favorite railroad passenger coach.
Lots of progress has been made on the Green Bay car. Here, the grab irons are about to get primed on the east end of the car.
The end beam is in paint, ready for attachment to the car.
The north steps are painted and the grabs are in gray primer.
The beam is now fitted. Trying to line up the bolts with the holes in the wood and steel was a real challenge. But, we got it!
The large piece is the buffer plate. Smaller is a shim for the platform deck. Both in damp proof red primer.
The diamond plate deck is being needle chipped by Jack.
The old deck was rotted out so we made a new one out of leftover siding scraps. Here it is up side down awaiting primer.
The wood deck is now in paint, as well as the diamond plate in the background.
The doorway is green and the beam with buffer is done.
Where the south side step box is attached to the car, we had some rotten wood around the holes. Lag bolts are used to hold the steps up. Jack started to carve out the area trying to find solid wood. He found it, three hours later!
Using mostly hand wood chisels, about an inch and a half was removed. This area is only about16 inches by 6 inches. 4 wood dowels were glued into the old holes. When the new lag bolts are applied, we will drill part way into these dowels. Next, a new piece of hard wood was fitted in this area.
After the block was applied, new siding was nailed in place. Most of this won't be visible once the step box is installed.
Once again, Jack was needle chipping and then wire wheeling the other step box.
The platform deck is now carriage bolted down.
The steps are in primer.
The deck is freshly painted. Also, the left handrail with the hand brake wheel/shaft is getting painted in the foreground. Next will be installing all of this on the east end of the car.
The door has been prepped for painting.
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