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Tuesday, December 3. 2013

The Last Two Weeks of November 2013 ... Posted by Pauline Trabert in Passenger Car Department at 13:40

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The Last Two Weeks of November 2013 in the Coach Department

Sunday, November 24th: Kevin Kriebs and Shelly Vanderschaegen painted the first coat of tan on the walls of Exhibit Car #2 while Mark Gellman and Department Head Mike Baksic were getting parts together.

Kevin Kriebs painting edges at the start of the day

One wall with first coat of tan paint

Kevin Kriebs near the end of the painting day on 11/23/13

Progress was made

Saturday, November 30th: It was warm - 42 degrees until the sun started going down. Jon Habegger and Shelly Vanderschaegen cleaned Halloween leftovers of dried blood and leaves in the Birmingham. This included general cleaning of tables and floor. They put pictures back up that belonged in the Birmingham, ready for our Christmas visitors. And they put a Christmas tree and a Menorah for the holidays.

Meanwhile, Mark Gellman, Ray Mormann, and Curator Mike Baksic started gathering parts and pieces and putting them back into the Loch Sloy. These were things put into storage by the late Phil Stepek who was not able to get them back in the cars. Mark, Ray and Mike are starting with the Loch Sloy and will do one car at a time over the winter to install as many parts as possible.

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Roger Kramer about Bay City Crane Restoration
Fri, 11-30-2018 19:48
Hello Ted No, its not the Metro Burro crane. Its the Bay City 25 ton Crane sitting in the back of the Steam Shop. Thanks Roger

Ted Miles about Bay City Crane Restoration
Fri, 11-30-2018 13:43
Is that the Metra Burro Model 30 crane you are working on?

Ethan Armitage about Bay City Crane Restoration
Tue, 11-27-2018 17:12
Good Job.

Robert E Dumont about Paul Cronin is the Passenger Car Department Curator
Sat, 11-03-2018 17:05
Are you the Paul Cronin from B&M days at Iron Horse Park?

Mark Kothenbeutel about Part 4 Milw 649
Mon, 09-24-2018 18:39
keep up the good work on this car. Wish I could be there to help. is starting to look good.

Ted Miles about GBW 109
Thu, 09-06-2018 18:16
I am glad to see you took away the caboose fittings; they were only added in the car's last two years. By all means, put in the right seat frames, [...]

Raphael about GBW 109
Fri, 08-31-2018 00:23
was this car heated by a coal stove at one point in time?

Roger Kramer about Steam bites
Thu, 08-30-2018 20:01
Hello Raphael Well, I don't know what the plans are for the painting of the engine. Only one person is working on it and he is a paid employee. [...]

Raphael about Steam bites
Thu, 08-30-2018 14:35
975: Will the Smoke Box, or at least the cover, get the Metalic Silver paint job found on all SP steam engines? And what will the lettering on the [...]

Roger Kramer about More Mt Harvard Painting
Thu, 08-23-2018 20:11
Hi Kurt I am working on a blog for the 649

Kirk Warner about More Mt Harvard Painting
Thu, 08-23-2018 08:16
Lots of hard work going into achieving the nice finishes that are being applied. The finished product looks great! Is any of your team still working [...]

Matt Maloy about Update... 428
Wed, 08-22-2018 14:38
If you want to keep up on the Electric Department, Ted, I'd recommend looking up the Hick Car Works. A couple members from the IRM Electric Car Dept [...]