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
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...
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 [...]