This entry is late since COMCAST was down most of the day today. But look on the bright side, I got to make driveway repairs! Always on my top ten list! And despite the title of these posts they include work done in the barn 4 shops as well as car work, often in the freight car department, and elsewhere on site.
Jim Leonard is always a hard worker and today he spent a lot of time on the nose of Chicago Great Western X 38 Russell snowplow. Lots of tricky areas hard to reach, to clean old rust and paint. We would like to remove the bent train line pipe, but so far that task has eluded us.
Lots of work was done by the crew in several areas on the plow, and here Jim closes the workday applying more primer to an area on the knife edge of the nose. Dave Rogan, Victor Humprheys, and Buzz Morisette helped along on work for the interior.
Speaking of Buzz he measured up and cut many pieces of wood for trimming out and repairing the cupola interior. So naturally he had to stay late and get primer on one side of the pieces.
One of our other ongoing projects does not get much press. That is the restoration of Illinois Central Gulf 199458 steel caboose. From the newly painted and lettered interior you have an excellent room with a view. Joe Luciani is on the west platform preparing to start re-painting.
The Wednesday Special Projects crew has made remarkable progress in a short time. Here is another view of the interior, including new lettering.
After cleaning and priming, Lee Regione is applying the new interior finish coat at the east end and under the cupola.
Paul Gasiorowski has taken charge of the artwork on the caboose interior - GOOD JOB - and now is documenting and preparing patterns for the exterior lettering on the caboose.
Rich Witt is applying finish paint to all the replica CA&E first aid boxes he built. The color is sort of a butterscotch pudding tan, and almost close to the color of the natural wood.
Speaking of the CA&E, Randy Hicks and John Faulhaber have a boring job. That is, boring mounting holes 3/4 inch diameter in new solid oak third rail beams for car 36. That is certainly not a job for a hand drill, but it looks like they have it all figured out.
Lorne Tweed, and behind him, Simon Harrison, sanded down the new ceiling panels for Cleveland Transit System 4223 and applied finish paint by the end of the afternoon.
Comments
Wed, 04-11-2018 11:28
You mention in the header that you would like to have the Electroliner operational by its birthday. Was it?
Sun, 04-08-2018 20:03
As a child, IRM was always my favorite place to visit. Well, other than grandma's house next to the Geneva Sub. It's been many years since I now [...]
Wed, 04-04-2018 16:01
Those temporary walls could be constructed in a way that allows their reuse after the phase is done to close off the new phases.
Tue, 03-27-2018 03:08
Why did the smoke box cover on the shay need to be replace Do?
Mon, 03-26-2018 16:29
It never ceases to amaze me of the diligence and passion of the current mix of volunteers associated with IRM in 2018. Back when I was a active [...]
Mon, 03-26-2018 11:10
Awesome paint job Jamie!!! I never would of thought with the Rock Island history this locomotive in this scheme would of been preserved. Thanks for [...]
Sun, 03-25-2018 23:56
The Hick's blog lists it as Fruit Grower's Express FGEX #55407. Arrived in Union June 2016.
Sun, 03-25-2018 20:51
Good job on the diesel update 2018. Sincere, Ethan A.
Sun, 03-25-2018 20:45
Good job on the steam update 2018. Sincere, Ethan A.
Sun, 03-25-2018 00:12
Bill, The 1990 Roster has the PFE #68428; this may be the reefer that we saw moved. It is a rare car and deserves a paint job. Ted Miles, [...]
Fri, 03-16-2018 11:10
It would be rather difficult to operate an 11,000 Volt AC locomotive on our 600 Volt DC wire.
Thu, 03-15-2018 05:57
Good job steam update. Sincerely, Ethan A.