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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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Wed, 04-11-2018 11:28
You mention in the header that you would like to have the Electroliner operational by its birthday. Was it?
Sun, 04-08-2018 20:03
As a child, IRM was always my favorite place to visit. Well, other than grandma's house next to the Geneva Sub. It's been many years since I now [...]
Wed, 04-04-2018 16:01
Those temporary walls could be constructed in a way that allows their reuse after the phase is done to close off the new phases.
Tue, 03-27-2018 03:08
Why did the smoke box cover on the shay need to be replace Do?
Mon, 03-26-2018 16:29
It never ceases to amaze me of the diligence and passion of the current mix of volunteers associated with IRM in 2018. Back when I was a active [...]
Mon, 03-26-2018 11:10
Awesome paint job Jamie!!! I never would of thought with the Rock Island history this locomotive in this scheme would of been preserved. Thanks for [...]
Sun, 03-25-2018 23:56
The Hick's blog lists it as Fruit Grower's Express FGEX #55407. Arrived in Union June 2016.
Sun, 03-25-2018 20:51
Good job on the diesel update 2018. Sincere, Ethan A.
Sun, 03-25-2018 20:45
Good job on the steam update 2018. Sincere, Ethan A.
Sun, 03-25-2018 00:12
Bill, The 1990 Roster has the PFE #68428; this may be the reefer that we saw moved. It is a rare car and deserves a paint job. Ted Miles, [...]
Fri, 03-16-2018 11:10
It would be rather difficult to operate an 11,000 Volt AC locomotive on our 600 Volt DC wire.
Thu, 03-15-2018 05:57
Good job steam update. Sincerely, Ethan A.