Engine House - Official Work Thread

[Mike Fox]

[Stewart "Start" Rhine]

One project this week has been to finish the inside header over the stall doors.  Insulation, vapor barrier and sheathing has been applied to all three door headers followed by a general clean-up of the center stall to prep for door construction.  Eng 9 is now back in the east stall and two new portable (floor level) platforms have been added to the pit, providing a place for the engine crews to step when entering / exiting the locomotive. 

[Stephen Lennox]

The east wall with the windows trimmed out look really nice.

[Bill Reidy]

During Fall Work Weekend today the engine house was dedicated as the "Frederick & Sharron Morse Engine House."  A well-deserved recognition.

Dave Buczkowski made the announcement during lunch (in the engine house, of course!)


The plaque:

[Tom Casper]

That is outstanding!

Tom C.

[Gordon Cook]

Thank you, Fred, for your never ending dedication to and support of the WW&F Railway.

[Brendan Barry]

Back doors on stall 1 done.





Door constuction. Door constuction. The door is glued and screwed together with the joints offset. Hinges are made out of 1/4" x 3 1/2" bar stock, 1/2" pipe, and 5/8" rod.

Layer of shiplap. this is the inside sheathing on the door.



Two layers of 3/4" pine and a layer of 1/2" plywood.





Two inches of foam insulation and edge and center bead for the outside sheathing.



Hanging a door

[John Kokas]

Look'in mighty fine there Brendan.  Any thought given to add nylon brush sweeps under the doors to cut down on dirt and drafts?

[Stewart "Start" Rhine]

Look'in mighty fine there Brendan.  Any thought given to add nylon brush sweeps under the doors to cut down on dirt and drafts?

There will be wooden sills on top of the concrete that go up to the rail height + weather strip seals on the bottom of the doors.

[Kevin Kierstead]

do the new doors swing in or out?

[Ed Lecuyer]

do the new doors swing in or out?

The rear doors swing out.
The front doors will swing in - as was done in Wiscasset so that when they are opened, they do not foul the adjacent tracks and stalls.

[Jeff Schumaker]

That is one large door.

Jeff

[Mike Fox]

That is one large door.

Jeff

The smallest of the bay doors to build.. front ones are a few feet taller

[Ted Miles]

With all that insulation going into the walls and doors; I assume that the plan is to heat the building at least some of the time. Will it be coal stoves or something more modern?

And thank you to Fred Morse and Stewart Rhine for all those cedar shingles! 

Ted Miles, WW&F Life Member, Build 11 Contributor

[Graham Buxton]

Ted, my understanding is that a zoned hot water system has been installed that allows locomotives to be kept "warm" without an actual fire .

Yes, a heating system for the Engine House - with a direct connection for its occupants - is planned.