Alan got eight more ties loosened to prepare for shifting the
restoration center lead into a better direction.
Tom sorted and catalogued in the library.
Bill installed diagonal bracing and did some floor patching in the
section house archives room. Once we sweep the floor and spread the
lemon pledge we can start moving artifacts. He also did some badly
needed tidying up in the restoration building. It had gotten to be a
shambles in there.
Gee placed archival paper on shelving upstairs in the section house and
weeded the flower garden on the right side of the house.
Bill and Brian moved a filing cabinet that had been removed from the
section house, and moved several racks that are not being used in the
gift shop to storage over the express room.
Brian replaced 12 missing and rotten boards on the station side of the
paint car. Maybe we can get this car painted this year, and lettered.
Ross reinstalled the ticket window grill, several missing outlet covers
in the MWR, did a bit of cleaning up in the gift shop storeroom moving
tools to the shed and some large boards to the archives storage. Anne
will finish organizing this room later. Ross also replaced the missing
handles on the gift shop door and put a new latch set on the sink room
door. He also moved around some of the displays on the walls and put up
the donation request plaque donated by Eva Lange years ago, it is now
over the strong box in the MWR.
Anyone looking for the aluminium step ladder, it is in the lobby at the
top of the basement stairs. I am thinking of putting a big hook in the
wall of the stairway on which to hang it. Comments?
Bob Moore has returned from England and is back at the museum. Last year
he made a template/ jig to make the curved three dimensional wooden
corners for the passenger car roofs. He dismantled the prototype and
painted all the pieces to seal the wood. We are thinking of making a
mould/ jig and making these out of fiberglas, they will never rot and
can be used with the EPDM material as a covering.
Over the years I have been asked many times to repair some item, usually
attached to the building. A lot of it never gets done simply because I
forget about it. So I have made up a Request for Maintenance form,
copies are on the shelf with the sign in book. Fill them out and I will
try and get them done as soon as possible.
I am trying to solve the problem with the track side door lock on the
MWR. Be patient, this is a unique type of mortice lock that cannot be
replaced. Saturday I will make some special screws at BRS and Sunday I
may get it fixed. If not the lock will have to be removed and brought to
my shop.
We took the trailer to Metcalfe with 16 foot long planks installed,
along with a scrap filing cabinet. Sunday morning Brian and I will go
and pick up 7 sheets of steel roofing 16 feet long being donated for the
garden shed. Tony has screws, the 1x3 are in the shed lumber rack?
Anne and Tony were on site most of the day, interviewing students for
summer jobs. She also met with some of the new volunteers.
Ross Robinson.
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