Illinois Railway Museum Blog

B and O Boxcar

Victor Humphreys and Simon Harrison are setting up the tools and extension cords to do more work cleaning up the B&O boxcar.  It was an unusually clear day and not too hot - in fact by one report the first time our area has had three clear days in a row in OVER ONE YEAR!  So the crew was out in force and besides the above two stalwarts, Lorne Tweed and myself did a lot of scrubbing of rust and old paint by day's end when Victor started applying the new protective primer to areas that had been cleaned.

Ready to Pave

Depot Street is ready to pave, subgrade in and compacted.  Weather permitting, that might get done yet this week, along with paving of the new trolley bus loop at the same time.

Spaulding Tower

Spaulding Tower

Here are two images of Spaulding Tower, slated for repainting by our tireless B&G Department.  Also noted was new roofing going on Barn 9 as one of their contracted projects.

CSL 3142

CSL 3142

CSL 3142

And here are three more shots of details of the cast iron brake shoes which are badly needed to keep CSL 3142 running.  Detailed measurements are taken in the steps to prepare complete mechanical drawings.

Ed. Comment:  The Zephyr trainset has been turned for continuing the cleaning and polishing - a VERY LABOR intensive process.  The cars now sitting outside are BRILLIANT!  Kudos to the workers and the Internal Combustion Department for organizing and ACCOMPLISHING this project!