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Monday, November 30. 2009Wood Shop Update - November 29, 2009Tim Peters spent a rare Sunday in the woodshop working on the new windows for CRT 1268. The first four upper sash were bing tweaked and fit, and should be ready for gluing this week.  Old vs New I worked on making a new mahogany window for the Sand Springs 68. On the left is one of the original sash - well, original in that it was made in Oklahoma on the SSRy; and on the right are the kit parts for the new window. When the 68 was operating in service in September one of the visitors decided to open this window against our advice, and succeeded in tearing it apart. With help from volunteer Ray Pollice, we also made almost 100 feet of 5/16 inch radius mahogany quarter round for use by the coach department. This is a size and type of wood trim not commercially avaiable so we make our own! Monday, November 30. 2009Michigan Electric 28 Update - November 29, 2009 Roof Supports Sunday, November 29. 2009The LA Brill Trolley Coach Arrives - 11/29/2009Today saw the last of our coach deliveries for a while. The LA Brill 8002, the only remaining LA trolley coach, arrived from Orange Empire Railway Museum. This is the coach that we are restoring as our part of the trade with OERM that will see 4 coaches added to our collection.  Between the Dodge locomotive and the forklift, the coach was unloaded without incident It took about 2 hours to get it completely unloaded and to get our ever reliable trucker Mel back on his way. The hard part was getting it into the Hoffman Garage. After much pulling, pushing, and rearranging of material in the garage, it was around 6:00pm by the time we finally were able to get the coach positioned to where it is going to live during the restoration. A HUGE thanks to Richard Schauer who spent his entire Sunday helping out, directing the operation from start to finish.  Ready to go into the Hoffman Garage where the restoration work will begin shortly Sunday, November 29. 2009Wood Shop Update - November 28, 2009There was not a lot of activity since much of the crew was on a field trip to East Troy to try to rescue parts form two more cars that they are scrapping. But we saw Buzz Morissette making a new set of footboards for the L 4, and later helping with the workshop Barn 4 addition; Tim Peters continuing flashing the roof on the CRT 1268, DIck Lukin painting two threshold castings for a CTA 4000, and two volunteers making sawdust.  Rabbeting the Rail Rich Witt is trying his hand running stock through the table saw with assistance by Dick Lukin. A total of twenty new rails and stiles sits on the jointer table to the right of Dick, these destined for B&M 1094 in the Coach Department. Sunday, November 29. 2009UTLX 17222 Update - November 25, 2009 A End Here is a pic taken by Kirk Warner last Wednesday of the completed lettering on the A End. Just like an exclamation point at the end of a sentence, finishing the last of the work on this car before winter grips us in its icy fingers - well you get the idea. A goal set and met. Sunday, November 29. 2009Wood Shop Update - November 25, 2009 Sawing Wood? We had some help on Wednesday despite it being the day before a holiday so parts were being processed to manufacture five new windows for the coach department to be used in B&M 1094. Left to right, John Faulhaber, Bob Kutella, and Victor Humphreys. Sunday, November 29. 2009Milwaukee Streetcar 972 Update, November 25, 2009How did he do that? We arrived last Wednesday and the last of the hand painted lettering was done!  This Way, Folks Pete Galayda must been sneaking out to work on the car when no one was looking. But the car body is now nearly done and looking better than it has for the last FIFTY YEARS. Good work Pete, and the hard working crew of helpers. |
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Fri, 01-30-2015 12:20
1. The 9933 is still part of the diesel collection. The coach department maintains it as part of the Terror train and for some other fall events when [...]
Thu, 01-29-2015 23:30
Pony has no HEP or M.U. cables at the moment. She is almost pure CZ as she sits now. If her #3 axle had a Spicer Drive on it, you could hook up the [...]
Thu, 01-29-2015 21:06
No, it needs a Stadco generator.
Thu, 01-29-2015 17:00
Hello Dave The Silver Pony does not have Hep or Mu cables on or underneath it. BTY, this Spring we are looking for a group of volunteers to [...]
Thu, 01-29-2015 11:55
Does Pony also have HEP and MU cabling installed? A dome coach would certainly do better in excursion service than a sleeper.
Thu, 01-29-2015 11:34
Well, happy birthday, David. If I had known, I would have come. My birthday was on the 3rd.
Tue, 01-27-2015 22:49
Just keep doing what you do and focus on what you can! A clean shop is a tremendous effort that pays off.
Mon, 01-26-2015 12:08
The 2015 IRM annual meeetings; Rules,safety,election of board members, & any other business, etc. will be held on the 3rd. or 4th. saturday of [...]
Mon, 01-26-2015 01:05
two engine's i had in mmd were the 2 D&H "SharkNose" Diesels currently in Michigan; a once in a lifetime chance.
Sun, 01-25-2015 23:08
The RDC 9933 is part of the coach dept. collection, not the internal combustion dept.
Sun, 01-25-2015 20:52
multiple questions concerning this department: 1. Operating stance on RDC9933? 2. will SP 1518 (Eventually) be repainted into its black widow [...]
Sat, 01-24-2015 17:23
Since you have plenty of 645 part laying around, why hasn't anybody worked on the ATSF FP45? Also, when will you cosmetically restore SP 1518? I think [...]