The weekend again had a flurry of activity. CTA 4391 had its inspection completed and was released for service.
IT
415 had a journal bearing (Brass) replaced. It seems that the
Lubricating pads (Sheep) are getting to the end of their useful life
and will all have to be replaced as soon as new ones can be obtained!
The
Sand Springs 68 made three trips around the car line for equipment
testing & Ect. It is one of the cars that are being prepared for
the annual Trolley Pageant on July 4th. There are plenty of cars that still have to be looked over before that event.
Truck
replacement on one of the two New York Subway cars was done over the
weekend as well. For anyone that hasn't seen that done before, it was a
very exciting thing to see. (As much as I could see going around it
every 15 minutes). They jacked up the car, slipped out the old wheel
set, and slipped in the new one.
The wood for the Charles City Western 300 engine is being prepared for the deck around the hoods.
Three windows for the CTA S105 are in their final coat of paint with the rest of the windows following along.
Work on the Michigan 28’s roof continues. Installation of all new tack molding was nearly complete at the end of the day Sunday.
New
ballasts were installed in 4 of our high output overhead work lights!
Charlie Strong of the Car Dept. skillfully rehung the Fixtures and
thanks to his help, for the first time in many months, all of them are
is service again!
CTA 22&41 had some interior lighting
repairs made and an a height adjustment made to one of the Pilots. They
found out that the Pilot was brushing some of the newly spread ballast.
The work on the "Baldy" CTA 4146 continues as well.
Respectfully Submitted,
Joel Ahrendt
Comments
Fri, 08-11-2017 00:05
Randy, The 543 was never in that paint scheme. It'll likely be restored to the zebra stripe scheme whenever it does get restored. Jamie
Thu, 08-10-2017 17:46
If you ever get the money to repaint this engine, I would hope you would repaint it to have the big letters Santa Fe instead of the small print. [...]
Thu, 08-10-2017 10:38
I would like to know if these MR #649 and #542 were part of FEVR excursion in Nebraska? Awesome to have them to be part of IRM collection!
Sat, 08-05-2017 23:30
They need to restore Milwaukee road 33 and 37c along with the 3 Milwaukee road f units hey have
Wed, 08-02-2017 20:01
It was supposed to be restored and sat behind the NS Altoona shops for the better part of two years, waiting for that to happen. We finally had it [...]
Tue, 08-01-2017 02:42
those 2 Milw cars would actually look good behind one of the Milw F7's or the E9's.
Sat, 07-29-2017 22:02
I just donated to the Save the 800 campaign. Should the campaign fail, I would like my donation re-directed to ATSF FP45 #92 please. Please tell the [...]
Sat, 07-29-2017 13:14
I see Conrail 4601 has finally arrived. I suspect a cosmetic restoration and getting donations to put it in a barn are in order?
Sat, 07-29-2017 01:51
It was restored at Altoona before coming to Union from the Essex, CT area. BTW, is or was it going to be restored as a Virginian engine? or kept as a [...]
Fri, 07-28-2017 11:54
It appears to be the E33 that IRM aqquired a year or two ago.
Thu, 07-27-2017 14:06
What is the 4601 locomotive parked in front of the diesel shop?
Wed, 07-26-2017 17:53
Since your archives list no E mail address or any other form of contact I am sending this here. Over the years I have been given a huge amount of [...]