With warmer weather a lot of the woodshop stalwarts have migrated to the inside of Barn 4 to continue work on TM 972. Foreground to background, we see Pete Galayda, John Faulhaber, and John Nelligan stripping paint and doing surface prep.
Jeff Brady was in the woodshop measuring a piece of the new tack molding for the Michigan car. Note that classy t-shirt!!!
It's that time again to do a weekend update from the Electric Car Shop.
I was not out two weekends ago, but I do know that there were the tours
of the shop. As you will read in the Hicks Blog, CA&E 308 got it's
inspection.
Jumping
forward to the weekend just past (17 - 18). There was lots of activity
over this weekend. Commonwealth Edison 4 was brought over to be
serviced and inspected; as well as, CTA 41 and 22 on Saturday. That
brings a total of 4 "L" cars released to service, two 4000's and the
two singles.
Sunday brought the inspections of the Joy 2;
CA&E 431; and IT 101. The Joy engine was serviced in the morning,
finishing up by noon. Both the 431 and 101 were over next. They were
able to finish the inspection on both of these two rare running cars.
The 431 will be in operation Memorial Day weekend, as well as the 308.
Other
work around the shop over the weekend included continued work on the
metal of the PCC car in Barn 4 and roof work on the tack molding on the
Michigan car.
On a last note, we wish speedy recovery to Bob Bruneau.
Comments
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...