Illinois Railway Museum Blog

Feast or famine - lots of pics yesterday, not so much today.

Step Boxes

Jim Windmeier was out again, this time touching up the green paint on the boxes, and seen here painting the feet black.  He also cut the needed rubber pads for them, and the anti slip strips for the top steps.

There was a full crew of four working on the Michigan Electric 28 including Terry Borden from Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Warren Neuhauser has been leading the work on our MILW X-5000 dynamometer car, and he brought his team members over to the wood shop for a meeting.  We discussed producing some needed woodwork for the ceiling in the car.

Dan Fenlaciki worked on installing four new drop sash for CA&E 451 while his father, Jon, continued restoring the brass framed side windows for the car.  It was reported that the first red paint was applied to one end of this car.

On the same project we continued with a bit of work to produce 26 new wood roof saddles made from white oak.

I managed a little more wiring work on Sand Springs 68, and we saw brush holders being repaired, and rebuilt trolley retrievers getting new paint in the electric car shop, while George Clark continued making wood parts for Lake Shore Electric 810 in the wood shop.