NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 128, Issue 15

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Jim, 
Any lumber yard that does custom millwork should be able to provide any size lumber you would require. We do it hear in Roanoke all the time. Take a sample with you and they can tell how to make it.


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>Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 17:14:39 -0500
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>To: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
>Subject: CF 518216 restoration
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>This morning I had the great pleasure of meeting with fellow N&WHS member
>Dave Moorehead at the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati, where he is
>hard at work restoring N&W caboose class CF #518216.  Dave has made some
>great progress, but is in need of some help/information to help him move to
>"the next level" on the restoration.  According to Dave, he hasn't been
>able to find a source for "full-size" tongue and groove siding or for
>correctly-sized lumber for reproducing the end doors.  A little Googling
>educated me to the fact that standard sizes for dimensional lumber have
>changed (shrunk) every couple decades since 1900.  Since this caboose was
>constructed in 1917, the boards used to build it were considerably bigger
>than what you get at the big-box lumber yards today.  Does anybody out
>there have experience with such restorations projects and/or know where to
>obtain "over-sized" dimensional boards?  I believe some of you also belong
>to/work with the Roanoke Chapter of the NRHS.  Can someone give me a good
>contact for that organization who is involved with their restoration work?
>Also, does anyone know of any sources for CF parts, perhaps from one that
>has been deemed irreparable?  Any and all help/information will be greatly
>appreciated.
>Jim Cochran