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Sunday, November 19. 2017The Concrete continues to pour
Although the weather has been cold and rainy, with some snow added, that has not stopped Dave Diamond and the B and G crew from spreading more concrete. A couple of weeks ago the crew was poring concrete for the curbing in the parking lot expansion. This last Wednesday they were at it again but this time finishing off the sidewalks in and around the Schroeder Store. I believe this completes this part of the project! As I have said before, this will be the new entrance for the museum. The Happy Holiday
Rail event will be the first to use this new entrance!
This new entrance dresses up the museum and, in my opinion, is quite impressive to view.
 Part of the parking lot and new sidewalk.  The new poured walk just waiting for museum visitors. To the left where there now are two small plies of rock will be the future gas station.  Dave and his crew are building a new handicap entrance  This view is the back of the store showing the loading dock and more new sidewalk.  Three quarter view of the new museum entrance, gift store and newly poured concrete sidewalk. Thursday, November 16. 2017What Happening At Irm these Days
What's happening at the museum? Well quite a bite as you will see. From Freight cars, Elevated cars, Coaches, Diesels, and Buildings and Grounds there is a lot of activity here at IRM. Here's some examples. Matter of fact if you enter the museum grounds from the parking lot next year there is a entirely new grand entrance being constructed!
 Baltimore and Ohio Wagon top box car  It is now stored in barn 14 with the many of the freight car restored collection  3345 painted but not yet lettered  Illinois Central 3345  Entrance to our new bookstore. Yet to be installed is the front concrete sidewalk  New bookstore and entrance building  At this same time Dave Diamond was constructing new curbing and finally paved the new entire area with asphalt.  Not to be out done the diesel dept has just completed painting this Rock Island unit, Photo  This color scheme is nicknamed Bankruptcy Blue.  Tim Peters is concentrating on restoring this latest wooden elevated car  This is the other end of the car now under restoration Sunday, November 12. 2017Finishing the IC 3345
The exterior painting for our food bar coach, IC 3345, is drawing to a close. Thanks again to everyone who participated in this project. We are still not completely finished with the exterior but the vast majority of work is done. These latest efforts revolve around the painting of the vestibule and exterior doors on both ends and the prepping and painting of the trucks and other underbody parts. We removed most of the old paint, sanded the surface and then primed and finished coated both the walls and ceiling of the vestibule and did the same to the entrance door on the opposite end. It was very time consuming taking three to four weeks to complete. These pictures will show you what was involved in getting the results we are striving for.
 This is Matt Gustafson. Without his help the three trucks would not have been prepped for painting in the IC Brown.  Dan Bixler is removing paint overspray and cleaning the stainless wrap on the stair portion.  Meet John Knoll a new member to the coach department. He has just finished cleaning the stainless hand railings. Welcome aboard John!  This is Charley and his dad. They not only do some volunteering with us but also with the steam shop. Here they just finished sanding and removing paint from the vestibule scissors gate.  Howard is prepping the wall with his orbital air operated sander. Curt show his enthusiasm while watching from the doorway.  Another new volunteer is Bill Landis. Here he is wire wheeling another section of wall in the vestibule.  After all the work prepping the area Howard came in primed and then painted the entire vestibule area. |
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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.
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, [...]
Fri, 08-31-2018 00:23
was this car heated by a coal stove at one point in time?
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. [...]
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 [...]
Thu, 08-23-2018 20:11
Hi Kurt I am working on a blog for the 649
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tue, 08-07-2018 00:43
Hey Paul, Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier . It was always great working with you . I miss giving you new hats every once in a while . We not [...]
Fri, 07-27-2018 20:54
It is great to see the work on the #428! But how about osme news from the Electric car Department? Their part of this blog has not been updated in [...]
Mon, 07-16-2018 16:53
When is shy 5 running this year. Sincerely, Ethan A.
Thu, 07-12-2018 17:14
It was nice to see Roger's post on the successful steamup of J. Neils Lumber Company #5/Shay. I have been out of the area for over 41 years and sadly [...]