Illinois Railway Museum Blog

Italian Ruins

With apologies, here is a shot I meant to add to the entry for yesterday.  Rebecca Tulloch leads a crew moving newly constructed ruin walls (thanks Henry Vincent) out of the shops for use next weekend.

Step Box Boys

Tom Windmeier, half of the Step Box Boys, was in the shop working on the project.  It is getting to be a nice pile-o-parts.  Father, Jim, was doing duty in Operations.

Window Beading

Jeff Fryman made several sets of window beading, cutting to length and mitering them, for CA&E 451 windows.  Sounds simple, but often difficult to do a good job on these.  The cut ends were later prime painted.

Sash Painting

Later, Jeff started on the first red coat of paint on the other new CA&E sash.  He had primed these sash earlier. It is good that one dedicated volunteer wants to see this work moving forward.