Thursday was another busy day in the shop. I have just a few pictures of what was going on. In the morning I put together another third rail beam after jointing, ripping, gluing, and so on.
But the main project was the train door for the 460, of course. I've started by making a repro bottom rail, but that was left at home (on purpose). I've planned out how the new wood will be patched into the door, and the patches to the stiles were taken home for fitting, and so on. This should work out well.
As mentioned last time, there's a metal plate that goes on the inside of the door that was partly rusted out. It appears to me we have several spare pieces of sheet metal on hand that could be used to make a replacement, by anyone who has experience with sheet metal. That would be appreciated.
And of course other projects were going along well. Here we see a couple of newly-repainted windows for the 109.
And the Michigan Electric 28 is being painted. The front end looks great! At the bottom right you can see the front train door which has been painted too.
Tim has started installing the new floor in the 268. This is one of those 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles, but it didn't come in a box. He had to make them himself.
Fred and Gerry were working on putting together the fuse box on the roof of the 306, but I couldn't get a picture very easily.
Finally, Gregg, Jack, and Ralph continued making progress on the Green Bay car, but I'll let them publicize their own work.
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