36 Report

 The last two third rail beams for the 36 are nearly complete.  Today the fuses were installed, as seen here.   Unfortunately the fuses may lead to an electrical dead end for the foreseeable future, but we can always pretend they're connected in back somehow, right?

 Tim helped me get them off the bench, since that's valuable real estate, and they're now sitting on the floor near Bill's workspace for CRT third rail beams.  Once the weather warms up, which may happen some time later this calendar year if we're lucky, they can be mounted on the car.

After that, it was time for more work on the vestibule.   The flag box was put back in place and painted blue.  Then the rest of this side of the vestibule, down to the floor.

 And more primer on parts of the front window frame, etc.  There is no real way to speed up this process very much.

Meanwhile Tim continues to work on the bowling alley seats.  Here he has rigged up a system of clamps to compress the springs on this 15' long seat frame so the new rattan can be attached under tension.