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Thursday, April 29. 2010Wood Shop Update - April 28, 2010 Sign Box Following his great success in making a new sash for the CA&E 409 signbox, Rich Witt has been requested to fabricate another one for the other end of the car. Here the rough wood is being sized and prepped.  Engineering 101 College days are here again as John Nelligan sets up an engineering office to further de code the mysteries of the controls and wiring for Charles City 300.  More Windows Finally we were able to switch gears and begin making four new cupola windows for our Illinois Central 9792 caboose. Other work included efforts toward the re-upholstery of seats for TM 972, and we saw Charlie Strong stop in, working on the dozen new CA&E windows that the woodshop completed last week.
Thursday, April 29. 2010URTX 26640 Update, April 28, 2010 On the Roof
Thursday, April 29. 2010Barn 4 Addition Update - April 28, 2010 Painting John Faulhaber carried on applying many GALLONS of paint to the wall sheathing in the new shop addition for Barn 4. Monday, April 26. 2010Chicago Rapid Transit 1268 - April, 2010Thanks to Pete Pedersen who has taken and volunteered these photos for a tour of the work on CRT 1268. You have seen single shots of work in progress in our shops, but these are all taken on or in the car itself.  New Seat Handles  Door Decal  In Barn 4  Interior in Progress  Door Engine  Sign Box Monday, April 26. 2010Wood Shop Update - April 25, 2010 Back In the Saddle Again Joel Arndt is making some new saddles for the CA&E 460. These are 'temporary' in nature to allow the roof and trolley base area to be serviceable.  Get a Handle on It Tim Peters continues the major restoration project on CRT 1268. He has been removing seat handles, stripping years of paint and crud, buffing them back to bright brass, and clear coating them, as seen here.  Station Door We are in the beginning stages of a new Wood Shop project. Here you see an old and decrepit door on our depot. There are seven other doors of a different panel design and layout so we presume this was a stand in or replacement door installed maybe 40 years ago after the depot came to Union. It has definitely seen better days.  Better Door Here you see an example of the more 'standard' type of door design in use and found in our depot. I say 'better' with some reservations but certainly better from the standpoint of being period accurate and more consistent. So the plan is to try to construct and fabricate a new door, determine the designs, and effort to reproduce this design. In the future some of the other doors may also see replacement.
Sunday, April 25. 2010Wood Shop Update - April 24, 2010 Sawing Here Jeff Brady makes some carefully fitted piece to continue on the ME 28 doors. I thought I would sneak this into the wood shop report to avoid another entry with only this pic for the ME 28.  Lots of Windows Dick Lukin was out to help on several projects. Here he is holding one of the newly sanded window frames (done on our Berlin sander) and a stack of frames already squared off. These are now essentially complete - all 12 new frames needed for the CA&E cars.  Seat Frame Dick also applied a primer coat to a spare seat frame to fit our TM 972 streetcar. The rest of the story - we are now getting all the seats for the interior reupholstered. This frame will go to the contractor's shop on loan so they may check that each piece is correct and will work once back and installed in the 972. Victor Humphreys worked long and hard on this project all day removing cushions and backs from the car, and many others helped along the way. That included Frank Sirinek, Mike Stauber, Bill Moran, Rich Witt, Henry Vincent, and others I probably forgot. And Rich Witt and Ralph Huber pitched in on a Track Department 'order' from Adam Robillard. We sure cut up a lot of plywood and 2x4's for a unit to store parts. Oh, did I mention that Buzz Morisette has done some preliminary work to get a MILW herald on our URTX 26640 car, and that he was sanding and continuing glazing and paint work on new windows for the MILW 01984 caboose?
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Sun, 08-20-2017 10:00
Yes
Fri, 08-18-2017 19:01
Yes, they were.
Fri, 08-18-2017 00:52
Hi John T, We would love to have a copy of your Ohio crane information. Please contact Mark Secco concerning anything about rail bound cranes. Thank [...]
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 [...]