Henry Vincent is cleaning and prepping the window retainer plates for North Shore 757. We are planning on making new replacement sash for the badly deteriorated end windows on this car.
Pete Galayda will have the first color coat of ivory on the entire south side window band by the end of the day.
As you might have noticed, I haven't done an Electric Car Department
Update in a while. There were a few reasons for that, the biggest was
the two weekends that had the visit of Thomas, the Tank Engine. There
was work done in the shops on the various cars. The TM L10 engine has
working air in it now. The Michigan car has had several updates that
are under the Freight Car department blogs. Work also progressed on the
Milwaukee 972 street car.
Repair
work was done on CTA 3142's trolley pole and wheel assembly. The pole
will now track around the carline now, and not de-wire as much. Some
repair work was done on the trolley shoe of CA&E 308, as well as
other minor repairs. In addition to all of that, there was some
inspections and test runs of equipment that will be running for
Showcase Weekend, this upcoming weekend. I certainly invite all of you
to come out over the weekend, and see historic equipment running. We
should be back to normal reporting after this weekend.
Respectfully Submitted,
Joel Ahrendt
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 [...]