Things were busy as usual on Monday. The west (front) side of Barn 7 is being replaced, and of course many other things around the property were happening.
But I'll stick to Barn 4, as usual. I did a lot of wire-wheeling to clean up the various cast iron parts for the beams, and got rather dirty in the process. But as seen here, the #1 end beam for the 319 now has a scraper installed.
And the cylinder for the #2 beam was cleaned up and attached. I started mortising the holes for the bolts that support the shoe assembly, but that's not quite done.
Several of the 306 crew were at work but I didn't get any pictures.
Fritz helped me lift the cylinder onto the table, and showed me what they've been doing on the interior of the 28. I guess it's no secret that the interior was stripped out when the body was made into a house back about 1929, but it can be replaced. They are planning to move the storage shelves (seen at the left in this picture) from the smoker compartment to the coach area, so work on restoring the walls and ceiling can commence.
Meanwhile, the baggage compartment is starting to look great. It's always difficult to get a good picture of such a small space, but I can tell you it's really nice.
Fritz is working on reproducing the various storage spaces in the front compartment, as seen here:
And here he is making a replacement wrecking tool box.
Tim continues to work on the 268. The hinged clerestory windows are very difficult to keep in operating condition, because the tolerances are very small. It doesn't take much for them to become stuck and inoperable. We have the same problem on the 150, but at least that's not an operating car.
Finally, I'm going to be helping with the 36's leaf springs. Here's what a single spring looks like:
And I should have moved it to make it more visible, but that's one of the end castings in the upper-right corner. Those should all be reusable.
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