Wednesday Workshop

 Another busy Wednesday, and we have pictures of just some of the progress that is being made.

We'll start with the 28, since it's closest to the door to the shop.  Painting continues, inside and out.  Here we see the orange, and our paint experts are continuing to perfect the green.  If you thought there was just one Pullman Green, you thought wrong.

And they're making good progress on putting the front compartment together.

Next track over, the new side doors on the 1268 look great.

And from the other side, notice that the clerestory windows extend out quite a ways in order to catch as much fresh air as possible, I guess.  Must be Spanish Flu season....

Work has started on the interior of CA&E 451.

They've set up tables and so forth so the walls can be stripped and repainted.  I'd like to have the names of the people working on this project so they get the credit they deserve.

Looking into the smoker.  The ceiling here looks worse than the main compartment.

And then, Gregg continues work on the Green Bay car.  Here he's applying Bondo to parts of the body posts that are somewhat rotten at the bottom.  He says there's not much else he can do, there's nothing behind them.

Finally, I was working on the end door for the 460.

Here's the new bottom rail, which I made at home.  The tenons needed to be trimmed.

The side which goes into the complete stile was finished and fits perfectly.

Then I started fitting the patch piece for the inner stile.  It and the rail were taken home, since I can fit them together in my shop.  

But wait, there's more!!!!

The Horn Blows at Midday

As a special treat, Norm brought out the horn for the Michigan Electric 28, which was unique to this car, and tested it for the first time.  It works!  

(And for those of you without perfect pitch, I'd say that's roughly a C#.)