This Is Brilliant!

(Photo by Bill Wulfert)

"Brilliant Red," to be exact. On Saturday the 319 was switched out of Barn 2 over to Barn 8, as mentioned before. Thanks to all who helped! The 409 is now in its place, ready for surface prep to begin.

(L) Dan Fenlaciki and Stan W.

I did some testing on Saturday. The compressor armature meggers only 500K, which is worrisome. We'll let you know what happens next.

Walt Stafa was here and has started diagnosing the control system on car 36. He's an old friend of ours from Ohio and has the expertise to fix whatever problems are encountered.

On Sunday we rearranged the cars in Barn 8, so the 319 is now behind the blue cars. Norman, Jeff B., Frank H., and I also worked on finishing the motor truck which we'll be shipping to the Connecticut Trolley Museum in a few days in exchange for the correct motor truck for the 36.

(L) Norm is working on tightening bolts. (R) The motor truck over the pit. The motors were rebuilt in Cleveland and thus have nice clean paint.

Frank and I also did some more testing on the 319; the control group works fine, as we expected. We'll be continuing on inspection and lubrication with the goal of having the car operational by July 3rd.

Frank adds...
Later in the day I helped out with putting a tarp on Milwaukee Electric M37, the container car, and then assisted Greg K. in removing the storm window retainer plates from the 460 while it was over at Barn 4 (see below). A bunch of department volunteers had been trouble-shooting the 460 and have gotten the MG set working and trolley pole bases repaired, among other recent improvements.