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CAMA Railroad Restoration Project: Part Three: Housework - posts, roof, siding Tionesta Valley Railroad #111 Caboose Now that the chassis and cabin/house are joined, work on restoring the house can procede. New posts and beams replace rotted frame members. A new roof and exterior siding close in the house. The original interior siding will be saved. |
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| ABOVE: The cupola has had a long history of leaking. This photo looking down into the opening where the cupola was removed, shows the extent of rot in the roof and house framing members. |
ABOVE: Luckily, some of the original framing and interior siding was in good shape. This photo shows the area under the roof overhang on the platform. Note the use of surplus wood in framing the window. This curve corresponds to the curve of the roof rafters. |
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| ABOVE: The posts below the cupola were totally gone. The mainbeam for the cabin was rotted into two pieces. All this framing had to be replaced. |
ABOVE: Once the posts and beams were renewed the tie rods that held the cabin together (both horizontally and vertically) were put into place. The new roof was then installed. |
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| ABOVE: Two photos showing the new roof construction. The original rafters were curved lengths of oak. Using the curve of the end wall rafters, we made a jig to reproduce the original curve. It is an arc of an 18 foot radius circle. The same tongue & groove planking used for siding is also used for roofing. The cupola seat nearest the camera is the same seat Mae Golden sat in, in the 1951 photo (after comparing the 1951 photo with this one, use your browser's "BACK" button to return here) |
ABOVE: George Cook and Bob Hungerford fit the exterior vertical siding to the four walls of the cabin. In this construction the siding is structural in that it stiffens the entire house. All tongue and groove siding and roofing was preprimed on the tongues and grooves and the interior surface prior to assembly. |