ASL 100 Part 6 Installing End Sill

Installing the end sill on Steeple Cab trolley locomotive Atlantic Shore Line # 100, undergoing a thorough ground-up restoration at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine. The wood is Southern yellow pine, and was once part of a mill in Fitchburg, Massachussetts. Careful mortise and tenon work, all held together with steel rods that run the whole length of the locomotive. The 2 middle rods also attach to the coupler, so the force of pulling freight cars is transmitted through them, and not the wooden frame. The frame is a platform on which sits the cab, and a place to fasten the air compressor, resistors, brake cylinder, and brake rigging. The 2 outer rods also go through the poling pockets. In the early days of railroading most rolling stock was made of wood, and the framework would have been very similar to this.

Video by Lloyd Rosevear, museum volunteer

To see the endsill mortise and tenons before we started the restoration go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt5QOqBm_ZU
and:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwiIBrKM_j4
To see them in the process of restoration go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ug9JjLlGQ&NR=1
and:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY2wWuq1o0o&NR=1

Watching this whole series done by Phil Morse is fascinating, we highly reccomend you take the time - you won't regret it!

Our Museum website is:
http://www.trolleymuseum.org/

Thank you for watching, I hope you will get as excited about this project as we are.

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• Seashore
• Trolley
• Museum
• Atlantic
• Shore
• Line
• 100
• Steeplecab