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Thursday, June 10. 2010Wood Shop and Other News - June 9, 2010 Roof Details  Roof Details These are two views of some of the roof details on Sand Springs 68. Work continued to replace a clerestory window in this area, a side window replacement, and two of the remaining light fixtures were mounted.  Drop Sash Rich Witt was laboring to complete more drop sash, newly made for the CA&E 409.  Steam Team And Bob Milhaupt was out working in the steam department. He came by the wood shop to have us splice a repair into a leather drive belt for a threading machine.  Platform Let us not forget Ed Oslowski. He and Ray Bellock were both in Barn 4 working to complete details on CNS&M 749, prior to its dedication and unveiling on June 19. You will not want to miss this event. Thursday, June 10. 2010Freight Department and Other News - June 9, 2010 Brake Hose We have been working on caboose ICG 199458 to maintain it and return it to train service. This is one end of a flexible train line hose which is failing and needs to be replaced. The fairly unusual (for IRM) arrangement is necessitated by a cushion underframe on the canoose and the train line needs some flex and give as the coupler and draft gear silde in or out.  Brake Hose The other end.  Welders Helper The group of Wednesday Special Projects guys are working on the recently acquired CB&Q smoothside baggage car. Bill Leider is setting up for Neil S to do some welding repairs. Bill was also working to repair bodywork on the car.  Welding Neil Schwingbeck is welding on one of the end door frames.  The Roof One of the newer guys on the crew is working on rust and deterioration on part of the roof. Meanwhile Victor Humphreys painted some more of the URTX 26640 roof and re-did one of the corner posts on the car. But he was too fast for me and completed those tasks before I could snap a pic. Then he moved on the IC 9792 caboose and was removing the crumbling cupola windows. Thursday, June 10. 2010CCW 300 Update - June 9, 2010 Framing Pete Galayda is continuing on this large project. He has moved to the second end of the locomotive and has cleaned and primed the steelwork in this photo. John Nelligan looks on (supervises) from inside the cab. Pete has also completed a fairly extensive re-build and restoration of the roof mounted fusebox.  Mysteries Meanwhile John Nelligan continues to delve into the mysteries of electrical schematics and wiring. After the locomotive arrived at IRM there was the usual flurry of activity and this resulted in several rats nests of disconnectied wire and cable with no documentation of about what went where and what any of them do. In this pic John is burrowing under one of the hoods as he attempts to unravel some of the mysteries. |
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Tue, 05-22-2018 21:26
Nice to see 1630 in action. Having said that, what is the holdup with the Shay since the front end is reassembled and the shaker grate system is [...]
Tue, 05-22-2018 15:51
I see the web cams don't have the timelaps any more will that feature return?
Tue, 05-22-2018 11:46
Good for you guys to offer the C&NW baggage car to other museums which is 100+ years old; before scrapping it!
Sun, 05-13-2018 20:30
Painting up a ic pass car and am looking to find out what color the stripe is. I model in 1.6 scale. I have the brown and orange. Thanks to [...]
Tue, 05-08-2018 18:34
I bet those cars made some interest noises when they started moving.
Thu, 05-03-2018 12:57
Folks, Over in the news section, I see the C&NW 8728 heavyweight baggage car has been retired from retail duty. I see that the car is not [...]
Sun, 04-29-2018 15:22
The PRR caboose is looking good. Thanks Mr. Humphreys, Rogan and Peterson. Are donations still needed for ATSF caboose #1400? And is this Santa [...]
Sat, 04-21-2018 01:25
with the Schroeder store now open for business, Will the 3 baggage cars become part of the regular coach fleet again?
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?