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Thursday, September 11. 2008Building Construction Begins September 10, 2008Today began the first serious work by the contractor on our new building.  Setting Poles Here is an overall view of the site with some of the contractor machinery in place and some small mounds of earth visible where the contractor has dug holes for the poles framing the walls.  Building Site Another overall view with the line of holes for the south wall clearly visible.  Staging Materials And some of the contractor machinery and materials, with many of the built up poles for the walls laid out on the grass. Thursday, September 11. 2008NYC Dover Strait Update September 10, 2008 Lettering End Doors Almost finished with the lettering project! Bob Kutella applies the car name to one of the end doors. Thursday, September 11. 2008URTX 26640 Update September 10, 2008 Steel Parts get Needlechipped James Faulhaber is pitching in on the needlechipping task in the door area.  Trimming bottom Tails Kirk Warner is setting up a fence to trim the excess length off of the newly installed siding.  Progress Progress really shows at the end of the day, with extra hands making the work go faster. Want to help? Thursday, September 11. 2008Milwaukee Streetcar 972 September 10, 2008 Middle Paint Band Pete Galayda will have the first color coat of ivory on the entire south side window band by the end of the day. Monday, September 8. 2008Weekly Update
As you might have noticed, I haven't done an Electric Car Department
Update in a while. There were a few reasons for that, the biggest was
the two weekends that had the visit of Thomas, the Tank Engine. There
was work done in the shops on the various cars. The TM L10 engine has
working air in it now. The Michigan car has had several updates that
are under the Freight Car department blogs. Work also progressed on the
Milwaukee 972 street car.
Repair work was done on CTA 3142's trolley pole and wheel assembly. The pole will now track around the carline now, and not de-wire as much. Some repair work was done on the trolley shoe of CA&E 308, as well as other minor repairs. In addition to all of that, there was some inspections and test runs of equipment that will be running for Showcase Weekend, this upcoming weekend. I certainly invite all of you to come out over the weekend, and see historic equipment running. We should be back to normal reporting after this weekend. Respectfully Submitted, Joel Ahrendt Monday, September 8. 2008URTX 26640 Update September 7, 2008 Millwork Kirk Warner is routing the v groove on new siding wood.  Other Departments Pitch In And Mark Gellman assists in the siding prep early on a Sunday morning.  Bats! Kirk Warner is removing 10 boards of old siding which are in poor shape. Inside - a bat nest complete with bat skeleton!  Field Work John Baletto is applying primer to the back of the new siding and Kirk is nailing them in as fast as he can paint them.  AHHH! The results of the day's work on the south side of the car. |
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Tue, 06-13-2017 15:09
IRM is planning on painting the BN E Unit they have now (the one in the passenger scheme) into a CB&Q. Idk if that's what your referring to as [...]
Tue, 06-13-2017 09:07
Did I see a Santa Fe Blue & Yellow GE setting near Barn 4 a couple of weeks ago? If so, what is the story on that unit?
Mon, 06-12-2017 22:56
i think what he means is to give the Executive units some detailing while retaining the Executive Colors, because if you haven't noticed, some of the [...]
Mon, 06-12-2017 19:47
BN1 and BN2 represent the executive fleet well on their own, BN3 was used far less and was 9919 much longer. Another CBQ E unit is a bit excessive at [...]
Sat, 06-10-2017 00:31
I honestly am not a fan of repainting the BN-3. There are plenty of BN E9AM's out there that don't need full repainting. Now I understand it costs [...]
Wed, 05-31-2017 13:59
According to the schedule posted yes. This can all change at any time due to mechanical failure without notice.
Fri, 05-26-2017 11:01
Steam Dept. Crew: You guys are heroes to a lot of us out in the hinterland!
Sun, 05-21-2017 08:14
Yes, the plan is to have CB&Q 9976 available as an alternate silver locomotive for the Nebraska Zephyr should 9911A be unavailable for service. Since [...]
Tue, 05-16-2017 13:08
Question. Will there be steam operating on either June 17th or 18th? Will be visiting from the state of Washington and was just curious. Thanks in [...]
Tue, 05-16-2017 11:36
You mean Burlington Northern #9908 will go back to being Chicago Burlington & Quincy #9976 ?
Mon, 05-15-2017 14:41
Will there be a rain date just in case?
Tue, 05-09-2017 00:35
so, will 992300 have the welded windows cut out? because after seeing a 1977 photo online, it had the windows there.