Illinois Railway Museum Blog

The title of this entry and comments are somewhat misleading this time.  It seemed there was not a large turnout of volunteers today, but I am sure they were merely scattered around our large site involved in other projects.  At least they were not where I was when I had the camera in my pocket.

Controller Cover

But I did get to see Frank Hicks cleaning the old paint off one of the controller covers for CA&E 319.  Loud work but the needlechipper greatly speeds up the process.

Bob Sundelin and I continued to work inside the Sand Springs 68, on the passenger signal system.  By end of day all the connections had been made and taped, and all the trim and car parts reassembled.  (We had to take a lot of stuff apart to access and repair, test the system.)  Several members dropped in during the day and all seemed delighted to press the buttons and hear the buzzers.  This was getting pretty chilly to work out in the car, and is a good stopping point for the winter recess in unheated space.

Andrew Sunderland was out working on a Westinghouse D 3 series compressor.  Heads off, lots of cleaning, etc.  I think this is an exact duplicate of one on the South Shore 1100, but is a 600 volt variety which will improve the operation any of that car's air systems on our 600 volt supply.