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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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Wed, 04-16-2014 16:21
3007 would be primarily for outside excursions with help from LOTS of volunteers, funds, and class 1 support. lets pretend Iowa Interstate decides to [...]
Tue, 04-15-2014 16:44
Yep. IF there were ever to be incentive or funding to put one of the larger items of the steam collection into operation, my personal favorite would [...]
Tue, 04-15-2014 15:20
yes, i remember one of the guys in the steam shop telling me that the size of 1630's wheels make it difficult to navigate the modern railway. but if [...]
Tue, 04-15-2014 10:50
John, We are not intending to repaint the tender end and sides. No #1630 does not carry cab signaling. (She left Frisco service long before it [...]
Tue, 04-15-2014 10:43
Jeron, I do not think this is something we would seriously consider. The IC car is already part of the collection. It did run on passenger trains [...]
Mon, 04-14-2014 20:42
I don't see any stripping on the tender..will that be repainted too? Also, I'm not sure how relevant this is to the discussion, but does 1630 have [...]
Thu, 04-10-2014 01:58
Nigel, I know the auxiliary water tender for Frisco 1522 was for sale a year or two ago. I don't remember if it was sold, or is still for sale. I [...]
Wed, 04-09-2014 22:32
Yes. We are looking at what it would take to rig it like the existing one to use as a water back up for #1630. It currently lacks the [...]
Wed, 04-09-2014 10:34
It is interesting to see both the milk cars together. I had been wondering if the steam department would use the IC car. The Railway Express reefer [...]
Sun, 04-06-2014 17:53
Perhaps because it would be months of work to lift the tender from the trucks and then ship the trucks to a facility with a bath big enough to do [...]
Sun, 04-06-2014 17:51
Not to my knowledge
Sun, 04-06-2014 15:24
Would the passenger car department be interested in some donated "Pullmman Style" wool blankets and/or travel type pillows for display purposes in the [...]