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Thursday, April 11. 2013Wood Shop Update - April 10, 2013 Winterized  Spring in the Air A sure sign of spring - although you would not know it by the weather this week. Dave Rogan and I went out to Chicago Great Western X 38 and removed the winter blank from the window in the rear wall. There ensued many fussy trim cuts, each one punctuated by the windy walk from the wood shop, and back to Track 41. Finally, the window slipped into place, just like it had been made to order. Wait, it WAS made to order. The window is back in the shop getting any fitting cuts primed and painted but as soon as the weather cooperates, you will see it finished and in place.  Trim With the window set in place, Dave is making a new interior window sill, and will next cut quarter round retainer molding for three sides. That got primed in the morning by Victor Humphreys, along with more station door priming, and one adjustment to the fit of the door lower mid stile.  Primed Henry Vincent continues on the train door restoration for Chicago Aurora & Elgin 36. The code string for this image is "BUM" - I wonder what that says about our crew?  Grids Pete Galayda and John Nelligan are like bulldogs, not letting go of a long and arduous journey to restore electrical control grids for Charles City Western 300, a steeple cab locomotive. Here, Pete is disassembling box number 7, the last one in the series.  Jointing Roger Kramer was in the shop, working beside our crew to restore a walnut paneled door for one of the heavyweight passenger cars. It is a beauty with a four way book matched solid walnut panel in the center of the door. In this view, Paul Cronin, Henry Vincent and John Faulhaber are jointing a new piece of walnut. John also spent some time making a steam bending jig, along with Rich Witt trying to locate the odds and ends to do that task. Thursday, April 11. 2013CTS 4223 Update - April 10, 2013I think I will split the Wednesday work into two reports this time, since we had a large and productive crew working almost exclusively on the Cleveland PCC.  Rear Interior Trim Simon Harrison was taking no chances as he is geared up to removing old paint from a piece of sheet metal to go on the left rear interior of the PCC.  Preparation There are a lot of old broken off screw stubs inside the PCC. Dave Diaz took a turn at removing them, Simon did more in the afternoon. We are doing that now as it will soon be time to mount more of the interior panels.  Out in the Barn Out in the Barn on a workbench, Jim Leonard processed several of the curved ad card panels, removing dirt, rust, and paint from the back side of these.  Priming As fast as they were cleaned, Jonathan Soucek was priming them, along with a sign box, and some of the other trim panels.  A Straight Shot Many of these ad card panels suffered through years of storage and had some bent corners or other dings in them. Dave Diaz did a very good job of taking all those out.  Wow By the end of the day all these seven were primed, and three more, two other miscellaneous panels, and the sign box. |
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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?