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Monday, April 25. 2011KC 755 Update - April 23, 2011Here is another look at projects that are ongoing, but are seldom seen or reported upon, and with detail views, rare in themselves. We are indebted to Steve Iverson for these, and he has been working on this car as reported in recent BLOG ENTRIES here. Kansas City Public Service 755 is a single ended PCC car, all electric, built by St Louis Car Company in 1946, and seats 51. It arrived at IRM in 1986 via SEPTA as number 2267. The car is stored inside our barns and lighting for images can be most charitably put as 'challenging'. But any picture is better than none, so here goes.  KCPS 755 The car as it sits now in all its glory as Frank Sirinek contemplates the next task. Frank Hicks worked on this car to redecorate it in KC colors and graphics, even if only a cosmetic paint job. Looks good, especially in light of what the car looked like in peeling Septa and grafiti.  Interior With work lights providing the only illumination this is the interior, looking to the rear of the car.  Interior And also the interior looking toward the front of the car. You will easily see the TWO and ONE seating plan in the front half of the car, something foreign to us Chicagoans. Of course the Chicago PCC cars were the widest of those models made, if I am not mistaken.  Cab The operator's position, of course, in the left hand front corner.  Roof Work Mike Stauber is on the roof, which was the object of the recent work blitz.  Roof Forward Looking forward you will see the roof vent restored and installed, and nearer to us, the trolley pole shrouds. Little of this did not receive attention. Frank is on the ladder and seems to be looking down toward his next step.  Roof Rear Looking back over the business end of the roof, there are the shrouds, trolley pole, hook, essentially everything completed in this area. As with most projects at IRM there are small groups of dedicated volunteers working to bring the equipment back to life. This car has been emptied of stored materials, the exterior repainted, and a LOT of work done to replace the all but opaque windows and get them working. The work is getting to the stage where more funds will be needed, so here again, please consider a donation to fund R755. Monday, April 25. 2011VIV - April 16, 2011VIV stands for Very Important Visitor, and this special Operation Lifesaver train came into and operated upon our trackage on April 16. Thanks to Steve Iverson for forwarding these images. Also note we do not really have a category for general interest NEWS items here, so I entered this under my department category.  UP 2010 Leading the train into Station Track 2 was UP 2010 painted in a special Boy Scouts of America scheme. The trainset was set up to operate "pull-pull" with a locomotive on each end.  Feather River Next in line was the observation car FEATHER RIVER. Here is the platform end.  Feather River Looking the other way, here is how the train entered IRM station track two.  The Line Up Behind the locomotive was the FEATHER RIVER, a dome car, the TEXAS EAGLE, and others.  Dome Here is a nice shot inside the seating area on the dome level.  Texas Eagle This is the coach seating inside the TEXAS EAGLE.  Upholstery This is a close up of the upholstery used on these seats. Who else but a fan would take such an image? The weather was not ideal but how often do you see a first class set of heritage passenger cars operating under trolley wire at IRM? There were a total of three such trips operated on the Belvidere Branch that day, with the mid day trip making a stopover at IRM. |
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Wed, 12-04-2013 12:37
Thanks John for the info. Any and all help is much appreciated. J.Sakash Co. has just donated a brand new drawbar sling to us, very useful. We also [...]
Wed, 12-04-2013 05:57
This reply not in its right thread, but I was having trouble posting a comment there. Again, not my Department but I believe the Olympus was scrapped [...]
Tue, 12-03-2013 08:39
Hello I have a question about one of the passenger cars that IRM was going to acquire. What happened to buying the CB&Q Olympus? Just curious as you [...]
Tue, 12-03-2013 08:34
Ah well that's a disappointment. Thanks for getting back to me.
Tue, 12-03-2013 05:19
Not my department but I know plans have been made for acquisition. When some of them became available in the first round of those retired, [...]
Tue, 12-03-2013 05:16
I am not sure I understand your comment on the pictures. In the BLOG entry the thumbnail is the image you see. If you click once on anyone of them [...]
Mon, 12-02-2013 19:07
I have a question for you as one of the curators do you think the museum would be able to get some of the old Metra Highliner cars? I believe that in [...]
Mon, 12-02-2013 18:58
the larger print is the bomb
Mon, 12-02-2013 17:25
Nice font...very readable, don't have to strain to read. Now, if the pictures were larger....the way they are posted prohibits enlarging by clicking [...]
Mon, 12-02-2013 08:22
Always nice to be able to see what I'm trying to read. That's an improvement, imho. Now, if something could be done to make the anti-spam code [...]
Sun, 12-01-2013 12:09
Hello Chris Thanks for your concern but there are so many holes in the car that there is plenty of air circulating in the car. Roger
Sun, 12-01-2013 12:07
Hello Kurt There is no active effort on the M-35. But little things are being worked on. Two people interested and always more jobs than [...]