Drill Baby Drill, or Pass the Cutting Oil

Al writes...

Well I celebrated the first part of my birthday Wednesday by heading
out to IRM. Randy was busy organizing the potential compressor swap out for the 36. So rather than getting his way I climbed into the Cleveland PCC to help Loren Tweed along with this project. I believe that this is the only non-Boston Pullman build PCC in preservation.Although the car made its public debut at the trolley parade it's interior has a long way to go.

The exterior is beautiful and nearing completion with the installation of most of the windows. However the interior is a  sharp contrast.

While Loren continued to install window tracks on the left side of the car I got to work drilling holes in the wainscoting to attach the panels to the window post caps, which did of course require generous portions of cutting oil.  When completed each window looked like this.

When finished each window panel had 6 additional screws and helped to make the interior more complete.

By the end of the day Loren had finished installing all of the window tracks and we had come close to placing screws in all the wainscoting panels (a couple required longer screws than we had with us).

Most of the wiring in the ceiling is complete so reinitialization of the those panels will begin soon.  This will go a long way to transform the interior into a more complete space.

Of course the campus was abuzz with preparations for the big Thomas event, lots of tent erection etc. Looking forward to helping with narration at this event as I did last year.