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Thursday, June 26. 2008Woodshop Update June 25, 2008 This Fay and Egan jointer dates to 1900 Victor Humphreys and Kirk Warner use our jointer to create new slabbing for our UTLX 17222 tankcar. We hope to have this completely repainted later this summer.  A lot of elements to get a new machine running John Nelligan and John Faulhaber work on cleaning the newly welded frame for our our 1878 molder. Mostly in primer by the end of the day.  Blacksmith Department George Clark and Gerry Detloff are working on reshaping commercial clevises to be used to anchor the truss rods on the Lake Shore Electric 810 project. Thursday, June 26. 2008CA&E Collection Maintenance June 25, 2008 Hard to Reach in the Back One of our CA&E wood cars was on the pit in Barn 4 just outside the woodshop. Here we catch Randall Hicks doing maintenance work and inspections, in this case on the controller segments. Wednesday, June 25. 2008Electroliner Update June 21-22, 2008June 21, 2008  On Track 41 Who could walk by the Electroliner, sparkling clean, out sunning itself? June 22, 2008  On West Wye And on Sunday, wash finished, spotted on the west leg of the wye for a nice display!! |
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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 [...]