The ceiling needs replacing, and removal was begun. The lights were first removed from the center of the car and placed to the side. The tongue-and-groove was then taken down, along with years of dust, dirt, and soot, as well as a few old wasps nests. There are storage cabinets at each end of the car over the doors, and the frames of these are in good shape. Craig made new doors and cleaned up the old hardware, and these have been set aside for later.
The vertical posts in the corner of the car where the old icebox had been built when it was a maintenance-of-way car needed replacing, and Craig has begun to fabricate new ones. There is considerable deterioration in this area, including in the sill under the icebox where water accumulated. More on that later.
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