We continued with priming the siding and underbody sheathing boards prior to installation. Here Bill L. and I are painting behind the trolley museum roundhouse in the shade. The PCC cars are waiting patiently for the day when they may again run the rails in Colorado Springs.
These are now drying in the sun. OB's old ring gear is leaning against the wood shop.
We also continued to install the underside sheathing. There are a myriad of bolts, nuts, and other hardware under the car necessitating a lot of cutting and fitting of the boards. Here Don is cutting a notch with the saber saw.
Then each board is fitted into place and screwed into the framing. Don is seating the tongue and groove on the far end with a mallet. Some of the hardware can be seen protruding from the underside at the near end.
Bill K. is placing the screw with the electric drill. We are thankful for young shoulders.
This section is done and looking good.
After completing a section it was necessary to move the supports of the car in order to work on that area that was above the supports. That meant jacking up the car and moving the blocks.
The surprise was that John noticed that part of the outer sill on the south side of the car was split away exposing the lag bolts for the pad eye for the truck check chain. The tips of the lags remain in the sill holding the eye in place, but not very securely.
The split extends between the cross pieces which appears to have contained it.
This drawing from the Car Builders Cyclopedia shows a portion of a truck with the check chain attached to the frame. The hook was placed in the eye attached to the frame of the car to keep the truck from rotating excessively. Presumably there was a "mishap" in the past where the truck was rotated to the point where the force on the eye split the sill.
This is a view from beneath the car showing the pad eye and a portion of the sill missing. Tom's T-shirt is visible through the hole.
This photo shows the intact hardware on the other side of the car.
In this photo the framing cross piece has been removed adjacent to the eye in preparation for repairs. To be continued.
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