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Monday, May 19. 2008CTA S-105 Electric Locomotive
Saturday, May 17. 2008S-105 May, 2008 Updates5/4/2008  Here, Wayne Baksic (left) is assisting Scott Greig to gingerly lower new glass into the waitng frame of a new window. 5/17/2008  In the shop, Scott Greig continues to work on glazing new windows for the S 105 locomotive. Soon you should be able to see the bright yellow finish paint on these windows. Thursday, May 15. 2008Behind the ScenesMany members work behind the scenes or take work home - one of the reasons it seems we get a lot done. In the case of lettering equipment, my department gets involved in a lot of that.  Tracing of Lettering on Cab of CE 4 In this cas here is the artwork for decorating the side of one of our electric locomotives, Commonwealth Edison 4. The remnants of the existing lettering were traced by Frank Hicks, and I straigtened, squared, and redrew the work. Dick Lukin has been diligent in cleaning and repainting the body, so he nags me on. Here the next step will be to hand cut out these characters and then it will be used as a transfer stencil on the locomotive. Note the elements are all there and will be re-arranged on the actual side of the cab.  Articulated Steeple Cab Here is a photo of the locomotive with one side about ready for the lettering, and in fact the numeral 4 has been painted. Henry Vincent and Gerry Detloff also work on this from time to time in an ongoing effort to upgrade the equipment. Thursday, May 15. 2008Milwaukee Streetcar May 14, 2008 TM 972 Here several of the regular woodshop workers have strayed to the Barn 4 area and are re-starting some serious work to complete repainting on TM (Milwaukee) 972 city streetcar. Left to right are John Faulhaber, Frank Sirinek, and Pete Galayda. Thursday, May 15. 2008Milwaukee Streetcar 972 May 15, 2008Better Days are Coming Here several of the regular woodshop workers have strayed to the Barn 4 area and are re-starting some serious work to complete repainting on TM (Milwaukee) 972 city streetcar. Left to right are John Faulhaber, Frank Sirinek, and Pete Galayda. Monday, May 5. 2008Weekly Update
Welcome to the Electric Car Department Update.
You might realize that I didn't update things last week. Well, that was the weekend of the Safety Meeting, Rules Test, and the Annual Meeting. Those pretty much consumed the weekend, with some work being done on Sunday on the usual Suspects. The biggest news would be that CTA 3142 has been moved off of the pit, and released for service. CNS&M 160 made it's way over to the pit for the undercarriage inspection. That started last week, and concluded over this past weekend. By Sunday afternoon, the car was for the most part finished, and moved back to Barn 6. The two CNS&M (160 and 714) still have to be sequenced before they can be run together, but that should take place next weekend. CA&E 431 was the next car over to the pit. There were some rope replacements, and other little bits that were done on this car. The "L" guys worked on the inspections of the 4000, which will conclude this Thursday and Friday if all goes well. Painting of parts for the 4000's continued as well. Along with the Yard 5 moves that have been going on, the S-105 has moved temporarily to yard 6, and the ITC caboose moved onto the 40 track. On a more personal note... running the coach train on Saturday was a day that, as one trainman said, "took the romance out of railroading." It was quite windy with ice or sleet or some sort of stuff hitting as we pushed backwards. On the plus side there were good crowds out considering the weather on Saturday for the "Scrap-a-train" day. The next event is the Electric Car Department shop tours on Saturday. Monday, May 5. 2008ME 28 Update - May 4, 2008 Tack Molding Project Manager Norm Krentel was doing layout work on new tack molding for this historic interurban. Last season most of the remaining old roof was removed, and now the new parts are starting to go on the car.  Squaring the Ends Here we have rearranged the furniture a bit to allow the very long pieces of tack molding to be squared up by Norm using our disk sander. |
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Mon, 06-17-2013 09:50
Wish I could be there to help.
Fri, 06-14-2013 16:50
Matthew, Any special event is the decision of the museum Board. My personal opinion is that it is likely that there would be a special event to [...]
Thu, 06-13-2013 18:33
Hi, I have a question, if or when she is restored and back up and running this or next year. Will their be a special event set up for the return of [...]
Tue, 06-11-2013 22:36
The whistle 1630 wore for a while that you're thinking of was a Frisco 6 chime donated by a former member of the steam shop. It was on it a few times [...]
Tue, 06-11-2013 18:03
You are talking here about something well before my time !. I have not seen her with anything other than the whistle she now carries. If she [...]
Mon, 06-10-2013 16:17
i'm curious here. Will 1630 ever wear the ATSF 6 chime she had on for a while? Better defines her, I love the deep whistle she has now but the higher [...]
Sat, 06-08-2013 15:15
Many many many many many thanks for getting the Spaulding webcam working!!!!!
Fri, 06-07-2013 16:55
The donation was to the museum as a whole. How it is used and whether any comes to steam department projects will be the decision of the museum [...]
Fri, 06-07-2013 16:53
Basically the plan is "ONLY" reassembly. As far as we know she is is reasonable mechanical shape. The big mechanical problem that stopped her (slack [...]
Fri, 06-07-2013 16:28
Nigel I read you guys got a one million dollar check donation!!! Will this be used to finish 1630 ,428, 5 and get started on the others next in line?
Fri, 06-07-2013 16:16
So does 1630 basically only need reassembly? With the boiler in particular. Does her tender or running gear need any work before she's ready for the [...]
Fri, 06-07-2013 12:00
Hello.. The voltage we are using and presumed the RR also used is 120 vac. The system is a little unique because the lite bulbs are each 60 volts. [...]