Passenger Car Department

Mike McCraren was working on peeling carpeting off walls in the Pacific Peak in the streamliner set. Mike Baksic and Jack Biesterfeld were putting a wall back up in the Boston and Maine #1094 wooden cafe-coach. 

Jon Habegger, Shelly Vanderschaegen and Kevin Kreibs finished the second coat of paint on the ceiling of the second Exhibit Car. 

Kevin Kreibs admires the finished ceiling painting in the 2nd Exhibit Car 11/17/13

Buzz Morisette was a busy guy in the Ely dining room over the course of three days last week. He epoxied the wood left on the ceiling to make it stronger, and then cut the braces to fit. He dry fit the braces and penciled in where to put the bolts then drilled holes through both pieces of wood, bolted them, and then primed them.

Newly installed ceiling braces in the Ely dining room

Focus on the second brace installed by Buzz

John McKelvey finished one last seat back for the DM&IR #84 car before flying south for the winter with all the other Snowbirds.

It could have been one of the last really nice days for 2013 on Sunday the 10th and a lot of work moved forward that day. Inside the second Exhibit Car ceiling painting was continued by Shelly Vanderschaegen, Kevin Kreibs and Jon Habegger. Two coats of paint will be applied to the ceiling.

Shelly Vandershaegen painting the 2nd Exhibit Car 11/10/13 - Photo by Jon Habegger

Kevin Kriebs also painting the 2nd Exhibit Car 11/10/13 - Jon Habegger photo

John McKelvey worked in the Barn 4 shop on seat bottoms from the smoking section of the Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Railway #84 coach. He is reupholstering them in a leather-look vinyl once the basic repair work is done.

John McKelvey sewing seat bottoms together prior to recovering them

The underside of the DMIR 84 coach bench seats

Jon Habegger took a photo inside the DM&IR car smoking section to show some of the completed seat covers in place. It was completely dark in the car when the image was captured. 

A shot in the dark of DMIR 84 smoking section from Jon Habegger

Buzz Morisette is making progress in the Ely dining room ceiling repair. Because of previous repair work done on the car, Buzz explained that the curve of the roof has been changed. He is correcting for this cosmetically as much as possible but said a new roof would be required to make it right and that would be a tremendously time consuming and costly project.

Buzz Morisettes skills are being put to good use in the Ely dining room

Buzz patiently waits for the photographer to catch up

Milwaukee Road Dynamometer project leader Warren Newhauser worked with new X-5000 volunteers Dan LaKemper and son Brian on getting mechanical equipment operational while Chuck Trabert sealed the second bay window. The car is expected to be weathertight this winter.

Chuck Trabert and Warren Newhauser working on the Dynamometer Nov. 10, 2013

New X-5000 volunteer Brian LaKemper

New X-5000 volunteer Dan LaKemper

As Warren and Chuck worked outside the Dynamometer car the streamliner cars were switched from their temporary mainline position back to Yard 5.

The streamliner cars were moved back to Yard 5

Mark Gellman helped with switching moves to get the streamliner cars back in their spot in Yard 5. It takes a series of moves to get the train set out of and into Yard 5 and it took about an hour of steady switching to complete the work.

Mark Gellman helped out with the streamliner cars switching moves

After the streamliner cars were back in place, Mike Baksic, Mark Gellman, and Jon Habegger worked another two hours putting extension cords back in place and hooking up heaters so the cars could be warm for meetings.