Summer 2018

As usual, Friends work sessions on the Railroad took many of our workers so that sessions at the COS site were fewer over the summer.

Work continued on the interior panelling, however.  Dean is sanding around the window in this photo.

Caulking and filling also moved forward with Don working around a window on the exterior.

More of the same with Ron weilding a putty knife in this photo.

John is caulking on the end of the car.  Some new people joined us and have been an immense help.

The overhangs at each end needed to have the old paint stripped and Bill L. is doing yeoman's work at this task.

Fitting and installing the steel for the coupler pockets also continued.  Bill K. seems to be one of the point men on this,  maybe because he always brings his hard hat.

The seat frame castings have been delivered.  They are going to require some grinding and polishing before finishing.

John, Craig and Ron are discussing the roof flashing along the bottom of the clerestory window mockup.  They are using pieces of the old flashing that were removed during dismantling of the car to reconstruct how the new material will be installed.

 Something like this.  There will be a piece over the lower part of the window frame which will overlap that on the roof.

The spring winds tore the zipper tape off of the tent material on the west end of the structure.  Tom and I made some repairs.

We used a hand stitcher to sew the zipper back on to the material.  It went faster with two people, one making the stitch with the needle and the other locking it on the opposite side.

The right side is the one that is repaired.  On the left double stitching can be seen which was also present on the right, but the thread is fairly thin.  A second zipper on the other end also has pulled free but not yet repaired.