Illinois Railway Museum Blog

Rear Window

Lorne Tweed is providing some needed help to complete window installation on CTS 4223, our PCC car form Cleveland.  He is working inside the car to clean old paint from the frame areas, and prime the raw metal, prior to fitting glass.

Welding

Mike Alterio is welding new steel repair patches to the sides of the B&0 wagontop boxcar.  Victor Humphreys cut and prepared the new metal, but installing them proved to be a challenge.

New Siding

Tim Peters is installing new tongue and groove siding near one end of CRT 1797, the wood L car he is restoring.  I suppose you could say this was exsiding (exciting) to see.  It is always amazing to see the fast progress and careful work on this car.

Running Boards

Pete Galayda has completed installing the new hood running boards on the west end of Charles City Western 300, one of our steeple car electric locomotives.

Dover Strait

Meanwhile, by Barn 3 the Dover Strait is sunning itself outdoors.  All of the equipment on Track 31 has been pulled from the Barn to allow for replacement of track.  Gene Mackowiak is needlechipping decades of dried gunk and rust from the truck frames, while Bob Hunter follows closely behind applying new black paint.