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Tuesday, December 3. 2013The Last Two Weeks of November 2013 in the Coach DepartmentSunday, 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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Wed, 04-16-2014 16:21
3007 would be primarily for outside excursions with help from LOTS of volunteers, funds, and class 1 support. lets pretend Iowa Interstate decides to [...]
Tue, 04-15-2014 16:44
Yep. IF there were ever to be incentive or funding to put one of the larger items of the steam collection into operation, my personal favorite would [...]
Tue, 04-15-2014 15:20
yes, i remember one of the guys in the steam shop telling me that the size of 1630's wheels make it difficult to navigate the modern railway. but if [...]
Tue, 04-15-2014 10:50
John, We are not intending to repaint the tender end and sides. No #1630 does not carry cab signaling. (She left Frisco service long before it [...]
Tue, 04-15-2014 10:43
Jeron, I do not think this is something we would seriously consider. The IC car is already part of the collection. It did run on passenger trains [...]
Mon, 04-14-2014 20:42
I don't see any stripping on the tender..will that be repainted too? Also, I'm not sure how relevant this is to the discussion, but does 1630 have [...]
Thu, 04-10-2014 01:58
Nigel, I know the auxiliary water tender for Frisco 1522 was for sale a year or two ago. I don't remember if it was sold, or is still for sale. I [...]
Wed, 04-09-2014 22:32
Yes. We are looking at what it would take to rig it like the existing one to use as a water back up for #1630. It currently lacks the [...]
Wed, 04-09-2014 10:34
It is interesting to see both the milk cars together. I had been wondering if the steam department would use the IC car. The Railway Express reefer [...]
Sun, 04-06-2014 17:53
Perhaps because it would be months of work to lift the tender from the trucks and then ship the trucks to a facility with a bath big enough to do [...]
Sun, 04-06-2014 17:51
Not to my knowledge
Sun, 04-06-2014 15:24
Would the passenger car department be interested in some donated "Pullmman Style" wool blankets and/or travel type pillows for display purposes in the [...]