All,

I have taken on the job of preforming work on Connecticut Trolley Museum's Oshawa Railway's #18. # 18 is a Baldwin-Westinghouse product; a class B electric freight locomotive. We are planning on a limited/ maintenance restoration. Rust abatement, roof and window work, paint, and some mechanicals.



The blog is located here: http://oshawa18.blogspot.com/

As always all volunteers are welcome; non-volunteers will be drafted.

Ted Roy
Project Manager - OR18
http://www.ct-trolley.org

IRM is also working on a Class B, Chicago Transit Authority S-105
Blog entires for it's restoration can be found here: http://www2.irm.org/blogs/index.php?/categories/10-Chicago-Transit-Authority-S-105

S-105 is probably not the most typical Class B, having been built to CTA clearances (narrower than normal), and her electrical equipment is basically that of 2, CTA/CRT 4000 series cars, in order to standardize parts.

Jeff

Jeff,

It seems that we are all fighting the same issues: rust and rotten windows. The new windows and doors look great! My biggest problem is the wooden floor in ours is wet and rusting through the floor. The windows are the culprit in our case. Because of the wet I need to remove the floor, almost 100yrs of accumulated dirt and rust...

Ted.

As a juice jack fan, I'm thrilled to hear of these restorations. Keep up the great work and thanks for the blogs!

Charlie