Tuesday News

Let's start with the bad news first.  Buzz helped me get the #1 train door from the 460 up onto the operating table, and it turned out to be in worse health than I had expected.  Here on the inside there's a metal plate.  

It turns out this plate is badly rusted in a few spots and needs to be replaced.  It's just a rectangular piece of sheet metal, so that shouldn't be too difficult.

 

The main problem seemed to be that the bottom of both stiles and parts of the rail are partly rotted out.  It's actually worse than it looks here.

The lower few inches of both stiles are bad, and both tenons on the rail are completely rotted away.  The door was just being held together by the metal plates.

Not quite good enough for regular service.

I started by planing down a couple of spare pieces of wood for use as replacements, but there's a lot more to be done.  I'll do what I can at home.  So let's turn to what other guys are accomplishing.

Here Buzz is repairing a window for the CSL 144.  

Tim continued to work on the new pieces for the floor of the 268.  No pictures this time, but you just have to imagine the constant noise and sawdust.  That's the price of progress.

Speaking of noise, out in the barn Steve Keller was needle-chipping seat frames for the 268.

And Gerry and John were working on the wiring for the 306.

Finally, Gregg, Jack, and Ralph from the Steam Team were working on the 109 again.

Great progress is being made on the interior.

And we certainly welcome and appreciate inter-departmental cooperation!

Finally, this happened too early in the morning for me to get a picture, but several inches of concrete were poured on the floor in the south office room, to raise it to the same level as the rest of the offices and above mean high tide.   But I don't know how exciting a picture of a concrete floor would be anyways.