Work on Philadelphia Transportation 8042 has moved to the interior walls. I started at the rear of the car on the curb side (it’s a single ended car) because Keith Bray spearheaded the rebuilding of the other side of the rear and all the wall panels have been renewed. Bear Kendlick got the seat frames, backs, baseboards, ductwork and heaters sanded and painted. Michael Buchta worked with Bear to reinstall all these components. When that was done further frames were removed and I started cutting and assembling the wood needed to rebuild the wall sections on the other side of the car.
The photo shows interior walls with all wood framing and baseboards removed being prepared for insertion of new wood frame panels which support the seats, heaters and ductwork.
The photo shows interior walls with all wood framing and baseboards removed being prepared for insertion of new wood frame panels which support the seats, heaters and ductwork.
On 1713 hard working volunteer Howard single-handedly continues painting the underframe as Michael completes additional components. The latest painting concentrates on the motor generator compartment and the intake louvers that bookend the enclosure. Michael Buchta is making tremendous progress renewing the intake ducts and the MG end couplings along with metalwork on both sides of the center door opening.
I did some desk work answering an inquiry from online asking the name of the streetcar company that served Mt. Bethel in eastern Pennsylvania. I provided them with three clippings found in the 1924 McGraw Hill Electric Railway Directory and photographed with my phone. I have responded to two others this month.
The next few photos detail our visit to New England for the annual Winterfest for Volunteers from our fellow museum in the Northeast extending into Canada and reaching west into Ohio. This year’s event was hosted by the New England Electric Railway Historical Society (Seashore Trolley Museum) and featured an afternoon at the National Park Museum at Lowell Massachusetts on Friday March 15. Above shows NPS car 4131 on the left and Seashore’s New Orleans Public Service car 966. Rides on a portion of the line between the Boott Mill and Suffolk Mill sections of the line along Father Morissette Blvd. Other parts of the line, shown on the map were not available. The line opened in the 1984 with replica Eastern Mass Street Ry cars built in Ida Grove, Iowa by the Gomaco Company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Streetcar_Museum
At Seashore part of the family took advantage of the hand car rides.
We took a walk through the car shop and got to see the Homewood shops shear which we traded for the body of Boston dump car 3618.
We rode the both cars available for rides, and got in a little operating time.
They lined up cars for a night photo shoot and we got a group photo which Kristen shared elsewhere.
We drove home via central and western Massachusetts and visited the Great Falls and dam on the Connecticut River at Turners Falls.
We drove home through New York State via I-88 and I-86. Monday we passed several new BART Rapid Transit car bodies headed toward Albany.
It is nice to see that my suggestion that to move the coupler from the front of 3756 to the rear of 4145 came to fruition thanks to the Youth Brigade. Please see Louie Mariano's youth report for details.
I was told years ago that the coupler, switched onto 3756 in the early 1960s, had come from an M450 (4100) series snow plow. Nice to see that it ended up back on M459 (4145). Might have come from there. First time I ever saw that photo!
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