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Thursday, May 15. 2008GN 70104 Update May 14,2008 Mylar in Place John Faulhaber is helping trace the lettering and documenting the history of the car, in this case, "BLT. 7 - 57" Thursday, May 15. 2008Behind the ScenesMany members work behind the scenes or take work home - one of the reasons it seems we get a lot done. In the case of lettering equipment, my department gets involved in a lot of that.  Tracing of Lettering on Cab of CE 4 In this cas here is the artwork for decorating the side of one of our electric locomotives, Commonwealth Edison 4. The remnants of the existing lettering were traced by Frank Hicks, and I straigtened, squared, and redrew the work. Dick Lukin has been diligent in cleaning and repainting the body, so he nags me on. Here the next step will be to hand cut out these characters and then it will be used as a transfer stencil on the locomotive. Note the elements are all there and will be re-arranged on the actual side of the cab.  Articulated Steeple Cab Here is a photo of the locomotive with one side about ready for the lettering, and in fact the numeral 4 has been painted. Henry Vincent and Gerry Detloff also work on this from time to time in an ongoing effort to upgrade the equipment. Thursday, May 15. 2008Wood Shop Update May 14, 2008 The 810 on Jacks The Lake Shore Electric 810 freight trailer sees steady progress led by Project Manager George Clark. Here George has recruited some help to position a new needle beam under the west half of the car. Sharp eyed viewers will see Pete Galayda's head just to the left of John Faulhaber working a hydraulic jack.  Flooring Work Randall Hicks was seen working on the small band saw in the shop, reducing a large piece of battleship linoleum to several smaller pieces. This work is for continuing progress on CA&E 309.  TM 972 Here several of the regular woodshop workers have strayed to the Barn 4 area and are re-starting some serious work to complete repainting on TM (Milwaukee) 972 city streetcar. Left to right are John Faulhaber, Frank Sirinek, and Pete Galayda. |
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Mon, 09-08-2025 08:22
Good job on the Burlington Nortern 9976. OK.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:56
No new news that I have heard of thus far.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:53
I'll also be doing another update on it soon. Keep en eye out for that.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:47
A little work was done to it for Diesel Days this year. You'll see photos floating around for the temporary short term job that was done to make it [...]
Wed, 08-06-2025 13:01
Is steam car CN 15444 going to be coming to museum several times it was to be moved to muesum
Sat, 07-19-2025 18:56
Yeah, sadly it's still there as of 7/19/2025
Thu, 06-12-2025 19:14
Its been 14 years guys, where is the unit? Like really? Did you guys misplace it? Or are repairs taking that long? At this point be might we will have [...]
Wed, 04-09-2025 17:40
Jamie Thanks for the update. She's gonna shine like every thing else you guys do! Smeds
Thu, 03-06-2025 16:28
Yes, there is a wye. Those two have been MU'ed on diesel days a year or two ago.
Wed, 03-05-2025 14:04
7009 number boards look good. Is there a way to turn a locomotive around at IRM? In case you ever had a mind to connect 7009 and 6847?
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...