Illinois Railway Museum Blog

This will only be short look around the shop yesterday, and with a number of different topics.

Taking A Bead On It

Victor Humphreys and behind him, John Faulhaber. are cutting some small beading for retaining the glazing in the new windows we are making for IC 3996.  It looks at first like a small quarter round but in this case it is assymetrical with one 1/4 inch leg and one 5/16 inch leg, just to make it interesting.  And of course we are making this custom molding out of mahogany, to match the frames.

Number Eleven

Lorne Tweed is fitting the last of eleven new frames for this 'order', and before the day is over it will be glued up and in the press.  The next steps will include finish sanding all the frames smooth, cutting off the 'ears' on the stiles, and milling the bottom edges of each frame bottom rail.

Never Again

Not never again in a bad way, but likely we will never again see the shop space addition so empty and clean.  It is now complete enough to be ready for final inspection.  Pete Galayda is at the far end, looking over the progress - and it really seems like a big space right now.

An Interesting Shade

From the passenger car department, Roger Kramer has been working to locate and clean up Pullman Company shades for the DOVER STRAIT.  Won't that look nice hanging in the windows?