Electric Car Department

It was a holiday weekend, so there was lots of activity in the Car Dept.. The biggest news is that a rebuilt motor has been put back in the IT 415. A full annual service inspection was also performed on the car by a host of Car Dept. personnel! It was tested and released for regular service.

The CTA 4391 (The Green Hornet) was brought over to the pit on Monday and it's annual inspection was started.

Work was done on the CTA S105 engine's windows, with the first coat of yellow paint going on one of the motorman's window.

There was a moment of silence at 3:00 pm on Monday with one of the members of the West End Jazz Band playing taps at the flagpole. This was a particularly moving event.

There are some corrections to last weeks report!
Not all inspections that were mentioned last week were for Regular Revenue Service Cars and that report should not be taken to mean that these other cars are now ready for, or released to, that type of service! The inspection work that was done to some of our work equipment was of a limited nature based on the annual usage of this equipment and the fact that it is mostly yard work that this equipment is used for! In addition there are Regular Revenue Service Cars that still need to complete annual inspections, but work will continue at a fast but safe pace to get this done!

Respectfully Submitted,
Joel Ahrendt

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.