The SECOND all new baggage door for CNW 7700 was completed today. Here we see Ray Mormann, Mike Baksic, and Mark Hoffman wheeling the door from the shop.
Outside at last - the door is on a dolly moving north between Barn 4 and Barn 3. Left to right, the crew includes Phil Stepek, Mike Baksic, Wayne Baksic, Ray Mormann, and Mark Hoffman.
ALTOGETHER - LIFT. Shelley Vandershaegen is inside the car guiding the lift while Phil Stepek, Mike Baksic, Mark Hoffman, and Ray Mormann provide the muscle to lift the door into the baggage compartment.
Hello all, and here's a few things that have happened over the weekend in the Electric Car Department.
CNS&M
749 got some wire replaced in the Battery Charging Circuit Box. Because
this car has been modernized, with electric conductor bells, the
batteries have to be kept charged, so work has been done to make sure
they do charge. The grids were replaced for that circuit last year, but
this year, the wires that are missing the insulation have been
replaced. There will be some pictures of this showing up in the Member
Photo Gallery on Joe Stupar. (But their not there yet).
CTA 3142 has had it's brake beam put back in and set correctly, as well as some more work on the line switch.
The
Michigan car has had more work done on the roof and tack molding. This
is part of the long process it takes to get a roof ready for the
canvas. Of course, once the canvas is on, it's a long process to get it
all weighted down, tacked on, and painted.
Work on the doors
continues on the PCC car that's in the Barn 4 work area. These cars,
being all metal and running on salted streets, seem to have a lot of
metal work to be done. It's moving along which is always a good thing.
We
have taken the air tanks from the TMER L10 over to the steam shop, and
when they run the hydro machine next for their own tanks, they'll run
these two for us. Much thanks in advance to the Steam Shop for this.
Rusted
air pipes are being replaced on the Baldy 4000 series CTA car that is
also in barn 4. These pipes have to be cut, then bent to the correct
angles (and let me tell you, if you don't do this often, you always
need a practice pipe to work on to get the bends right); then they get
threaded on the end.
The Lake Shore Electric 810 box car had
some more work done to it. The air system is slowly being returned to
it's appropriate spots.
There was also a board meeting, the last
one with this configuration, on Saturday. As always,
if there was other work being done, please comment it below. And if you
see there are some comments; please read them :)
Respectfully Submitted,
Joel Ahrendt
Comments
Fri, 03-29-2024 21:26
We're slackers and spend more time working on the equipment in the shop than keeping all you readers updated. We'll work on it, but I'm sure updates [...]
Thu, 03-14-2024 08:02
What happened to the Department Blog? It's been over 2 years and I still regularly check for updates, but nothing comes...
Mon, 12-27-2021 16:28
Happy New Year to all the Departments at the Illinois railway Museum! Thanks for all the good work you do in railroad preservation. Ted Miles, [...]
Wed, 10-13-2021 13:33
Was the CB&Q 1309 every transported to IRM?I’ve been reading old issues of Rail&Wire and the car was mentioned several times.
Mon, 06-07-2021 22:40
I was wondering if in the model layout display what scale would you guys be using and would you be displaying model train history as well? Just [...]
Wed, 06-02-2021 17:27
Nice to see 428's cab back on. Looking forward to when it is operable!
Tue, 06-01-2021 16:47
I hope the work will continue on the UP #428. Now that they are the museum's connection to the national railroad network; she would be very [...]
Sat, 04-17-2021 23:07
What is the status of 126, the Milwaukee Buffet car that is in S. Dakota? Any guess on when or if it will get to IRM?
Wed, 04-14-2021 21:09
Perhaps it is time to scrap the remains of the c, B & Q 7128 to make room for the Villa Real. Ted miles, IRM member
Wed, 04-14-2021 15:26
Hi IRM my name is Jason and I was wonder If you guys would be willing to save a CN Dash8-40cm they are currently being retired by CN and being [...]
Fri, 04-09-2021 19:56
Bear in mind that the Nebraska Zephyr is an articulated train set, so cars cannot be inserted at will. Although cars and/or a second engine could be [...]
Wed, 03-31-2021 11:37
I believe Silver Pony is currently on the back burner, and has been put into storage in one of the barns. The car needs a lot of work done to it's [...]