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Monday, May 19. 2008Weekly Update
It's that time again to do a weekend update from the Electric Car Shop.
I was not out two weekends ago, but I do know that there were the tours
of the shop. As you will read in the Hicks Blog, CA&E 308 got it's
inspection.
Jumping forward to the weekend just past (17 - 18). There was lots of activity over this weekend. Commonwealth Edison 4 was brought over to be serviced and inspected; as well as, CTA 41 and 22 on Saturday. That brings a total of 4 "L" cars released to service, two 4000's and the two singles. Sunday brought the inspections of the Joy 2; CA&E 431; and IT 101. The Joy engine was serviced in the morning, finishing up by noon. Both the 431 and 101 were over next. They were able to finish the inspection on both of these two rare running cars. The 431 will be in operation Memorial Day weekend, as well as the 308. Other work around the shop over the weekend included continued work on the metal of the PCC car in Barn 4 and roof work on the tack molding on the Michigan car. On a last note, we wish speedy recovery to Bob Bruneau. Monday, May 19. 2008Woodshop Update May 17, 2008 Chicago Rapid Transit wood car Here is a shot of Tim Peters and CRT 1268 on Track 83 in Barn 8. Since we could not bring the car into the Woodshop, here you see the work to remove the rot from a door post in preparartion for adding a partial patch to the post.  The plane truth A piece of poplar is being fed into the planer by Tim to size it for another patch needed on the 1268, as seen in the image and caption immediately above.  Courtesy Hicks Car Works While we were in Barn 8 we snapped a picture of Randall Hicks working on CA&E 309. Here the belt rail and window sill have been stripped and new primer is being applied. Monday, May 19. 2008CTA S-105 Electric Locomotive
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Wed, 12-04-2013 12:37
Thanks John for the info. Any and all help is much appreciated. J.Sakash Co. has just donated a brand new drawbar sling to us, very useful. We also [...]
Wed, 12-04-2013 05:57
This reply not in its right thread, but I was having trouble posting a comment there. Again, not my Department but I believe the Olympus was scrapped [...]
Tue, 12-03-2013 08:39
Hello I have a question about one of the passenger cars that IRM was going to acquire. What happened to buying the CB&Q Olympus? Just curious as you [...]
Tue, 12-03-2013 08:34
Ah well that's a disappointment. Thanks for getting back to me.
Tue, 12-03-2013 05:19
Not my department but I know plans have been made for acquisition. When some of them became available in the first round of those retired, [...]
Tue, 12-03-2013 05:16
I am not sure I understand your comment on the pictures. In the BLOG entry the thumbnail is the image you see. If you click once on anyone of them [...]
Mon, 12-02-2013 19:07
I have a question for you as one of the curators do you think the museum would be able to get some of the old Metra Highliner cars? I believe that in [...]
Mon, 12-02-2013 18:58
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Nice font...very readable, don't have to strain to read. Now, if the pictures were larger....the way they are posted prohibits enlarging by clicking [...]
Mon, 12-02-2013 08:22
Always nice to be able to see what I'm trying to read. That's an improvement, imho. Now, if something could be done to make the anti-spam code [...]
Sun, 12-01-2013 12:09
Hello Chris Thanks for your concern but there are so many holes in the car that there is plenty of air circulating in the car. Roger
Sun, 12-01-2013 12:07
Hello Kurt There is no active effort on the M-35. But little things are being worked on. Two people interested and always more jobs than [...]