Additional things last week

In addition to the photos from the first report this report includes views showing the work completed on 8042 plus progress recently by Michael Buchta on the ductwork for 1713 (the Terrible Trolley).
This first photo shows Art Rizzino seated in 8042 as we toured the car last Saturday and looked over what Keith had accomplished.
This is a close up photo showing the bench seats where Art was sitting reinstalled along with the new rubber flooring that we obtained 2 years ago which Keith also installed as part of his work.  The trained eye can also see that most of the chrome stanchions are now in place.  Keith is coming back to complete this installation.

Looking the other way from the bench seat is the center door partitions which Jack Demnyan and I spent considerable time repairing and painting. 

The new ceiling and the interior lights installed by John Habak can be seen along with the bulkhead and the fare register ringers installed by John Habak and Barrie Baker.  These two also meticulously restored the fare registers that will hang here, just as they did with the station clock they prepared for the new Visitor and Education Center.

Looking more deeply into the rear of the car we see the rear center door bench seat and the first of the seats removed for the rewiring of the heaters and restoration of the interior wall panels.

Looking further back the new wall panels installed by Keith and our crew are on the right.  Hopefully the video will appear showing December 18, 2020 when our youthful crew worked on riveting with Keith

Finally a close-up of the rear of the car where Keith installed a considerable number of items including the windows that we refinished along with the bulkhead panels that we painted and all the trim that was necessary to return the car to its (much shinier and cleaner) 1957 “appearance”  The upholstered seat covers will be applied when Keith returns.

Meanwhile Michael Buchta has made progress on 1713 and 73.  This series of under car photos shows his handiwork creating new ducts for the heating system, all of which suffered considerable rusting.  The picture above shows the duct of the rear right sill  of the car which he just fabricated and installed.  
The photo below shows the return air duct that comes from the louvered panel at the base of the rear center door partition.

The next two photos show the great job that wonderful new volunteer Mark Hall has done painting the underframe of the Terrible Trolley 1713.  Last week Mark received assistance from Mike’s parents.

Finally, late on Thursday November 30 Michael set up the new MDF panels for the ceiling of Red Arrow center door car 73 in the shop annex after meticulously mopping the floor and sprayed the panels with the Greenfield color that we had mixed for the job.