Illinois Railway Museum Blog

The weekend again had a flurry of activity. CTA 4391 had its inspection completed and was released for service.

IT 415 had a journal bearing (Brass) replaced. It seems that the Lubricating pads (Sheep) are getting to the end of their useful life and will all have to be replaced as soon as new ones can be obtained!

The Sand Springs 68 made three trips around the car line for equipment testing & Ect. It is one of the cars that are being prepared for the annual Trolley Pageant on July 4th. There are plenty of cars that still have to be looked over before that event.

Truck replacement on one of the two New York Subway cars was done over the weekend as well. For anyone that hasn't seen that done before, it was a very exciting thing to see. (As much as I could see going around it every 15 minutes). They jacked up the car, slipped out the old wheel set, and slipped in the new one.

The wood for the Charles City Western 300 engine is being prepared for the deck around the hoods.

Three windows for the CTA S105 are in their final coat of paint with the rest of the windows following along.

Work on the Michigan 28’s roof continues. Installation of all new tack molding was nearly complete at the end of the day Sunday.

New ballasts were installed in 4 of our high output overhead work lights! Charlie Strong of the Car Dept. skillfully rehung the Fixtures and thanks to his help, for the first time in many months, all of them are is service again!

CTA 22&41 had some interior lighting repairs made and an a height adjustment made to one of the Pilots. They found out that the Pilot was brushing some of the newly spread ballast.

The work on the "Baldy" CTA 4146 continues as well.

Respectfully Submitted,
Joel Ahrendt