General

Steaming

The weather was great yesterday and the Leviathan was looking good.  Here she has just dropped the coach train and is running light for water.  Including today you only have three more chances to see and ride behind this locomotive at IRM.  Don't wait.

Slats

Jeff Brady and Ray Schmid have made hundreds of thin slats for the end roofs of the Michigan Electric 28.  Now it is time to install them, basically each one trimmed and custom fit to build up the two layers to fit round contour roofing on the car ends.  This is shown on the rear end of the car.

Making Tracks

We have previously shown work in progress to completely replace the number 31 track in yard 3 and inside Barn 3.  Those fearless, hardworking track guys have assembled two large stacks of prefabricated track panels.

First Panel

The old rail and ties have been removed inside the building, and Buildings and Grounds, in the personna of Dave Diamond, has graded and leveled the track bed.  Using the Burro crane, the first panel has been lowered into place and is about to be bolted up.  As each panel is connected, that will allow the Burro crane to lift and run further inside with the next one.

Stripping Paint

Roger Kramer was hard at work stripping and cleaning many layers of old paint from the east end of the JOHN MC LOUGHLIN.  The weather turned cooler and I am sure that made this work much more enjoyable - as if grinding old paint was ever an enjoyable pastime.