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Thursday, February 16. 2012Wood Shop Update - February 11-15, 2011Call me all about lazy, or all about easy. But this time I will put all project work under the Wood Shop category. Let's start out with Cleveland Transit System 4223.  Welcome I would like to extend a warm welcome to Dave Rogan who is a new volunteer at IRM. He walked in in the morning and by afternoon was hard at work on doing the window sash restoration work on CTS 4223.  Another One Al Reinschmidt is a long time member and volunteer but he made a fairly rare Wednesday appearance and also joined in the fray, here shown cleaning some of the tracks for the windows.  And Others Lorne Tweed is a regular worker on the 4223 project and as usual it was hard to distract him with corny jokes. Very committed to the work at hand. Not in these pics was Simon Harrison - yes - working on more sash. The good news is that the stack of completed parts and sash is looking much larger than the stack of items remaining.  Wood Windows Buzz Morrisette is on the home stretch for the large batch of new windows for ATSF 1400 caboose. We caught him mitering and cutting to length the many small strips of quarter round to retain the glazing.  Saddles Tim Peters is 'back in the saddle' or in this case making a set of new saddles for the roof of Chicago Rapid Transit 1797. There is something about the smell of white oak sawdust early in the morning.  Having a Fit John Faulhaber is sighting along two pieces destined to become new windows for Illinois Central diner 3996. We try to mass produce parts exactly the same for each new 'order' or group of windows, but the last step is to match and custom fit the pieces before gluing.  Pressing Victor Humphreys, Simon Harrison, and I took two of the completed frame sets and got them permanently glued and in the press to set up while being held square and true.  Parts Pete Galayda just keeps plugging along on the Charles City Western 300 locomotive. He is working to restore a headlight resistance box and it sits beside a newly refinished controller cover. |
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Fri, 08-18-2017 00:52
Hi John T, We would love to have a copy of your Ohio crane information. Please contact Mark Secco concerning anything about rail bound cranes. Thank [...]
Fri, 08-11-2017 00:05
Randy, The 543 was never in that paint scheme. It'll likely be restored to the zebra stripe scheme whenever it does get restored. Jamie
Thu, 08-10-2017 17:46
If you ever get the money to repaint this engine, I would hope you would repaint it to have the big letters Santa Fe instead of the small print. [...]
Thu, 08-10-2017 10:38
I would like to know if these MR #649 and #542 were part of FEVR excursion in Nebraska? Awesome to have them to be part of IRM collection!
Sat, 08-05-2017 23:30
They need to restore Milwaukee road 33 and 37c along with the 3 Milwaukee road f units hey have
Wed, 08-02-2017 20:01
It was supposed to be restored and sat behind the NS Altoona shops for the better part of two years, waiting for that to happen. We finally had it [...]
Tue, 08-01-2017 02:42
those 2 Milw cars would actually look good behind one of the Milw F7's or the E9's.
Sat, 07-29-2017 22:02
I just donated to the Save the 800 campaign. Should the campaign fail, I would like my donation re-directed to ATSF FP45 #92 please. Please tell the [...]
Sat, 07-29-2017 13:14
I see Conrail 4601 has finally arrived. I suspect a cosmetic restoration and getting donations to put it in a barn are in order?
Sat, 07-29-2017 01:51
It was restored at Altoona before coming to Union from the Essex, CT area. BTW, is or was it going to be restored as a Virginian engine? or kept as a [...]
Fri, 07-28-2017 11:54
It appears to be the E33 that IRM aqquired a year or two ago.
Thu, 07-27-2017 14:06
What is the 4601 locomotive parked in front of the diesel shop?