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Monday, June 15. 2009Wood Shop Update - June 13-14, 2009 Dust Collection Bob Milhaupt and Jerry Lynn are assembling ductwork to upgrade the dust pickup for our Berlin Sander. This has been 'in the works' for almost a year and is now taking shape.  New Run Here you can the see the new wye connector already installed in the main trunk and more pieces being added to the run. Thanks to Bob Milhaupt and Jerry Lynn for making this look easy.  End Repairs Repairs to the east end of the CRT 1268 continue in Barn 4. Compare the left hand side halfway through the process with the nearly completed right hand side in the background. Monday, June 15. 2009Union Pacific 18 - June 2009 Lettering Buzz Morrisette continues his one man crusade on this historic locomotive. Now on the north side of the tender, he has begun to apply new letterring to the freshly painted sides. Saturday, June 13. 2009Trolley Bus Department 06/13/2009This week we did more cleaning in the Andersen Garage. We were able to get all of the big parts still left in the garage palletized for easy mobility. We also worked some more on the CSL 84. Jerry Saunders installed all new wheel studs on the curbside rear wheel. He then reinstalled the tires. After an inspection of the systems, he pronounced the coach ready for testing (much to the delight of the camera-toting public). After not operating in about 4 years, the coach suffered from a short bout of sit-itis. But after 3 trips, it started to perform much better. We have some minor adjustments and additional cleaning to do, but we are now able to move the coach at will.  CSL 84 (built by Brill-American in 1930) makes it first appearance in about 4 years today.
Coming up: We plan on operating Chicago Marmon 9553 for Chicago Day next Saturday. ETS legal is drawing up the transfer documents for our Edmonton coach. We are looking forward to, and are preparing for its arrival.
As we wrapped up for the day (or so we thought), we were intrigued by an unusual headlight shining out the back of barn 6. We investigated and ran into a group of Car Department guys working on getting the IC cars going. Jerry jumped in to help and I did what I do best – watched! After about an hour or so, sure enough out came the 2 IC cars into yard 6. It was GREAT seeing those cars out in the daylight. Yet another example of the kind of new and exciting stuff we are now coming to expect from the Car Department. Can’t wait until the trolley pageant on the 4th! Keep up the good work guys!!!!  The IC cars poke their nose out near the end of the day today.
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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 [...]
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What happened to the Department Blog? It's been over 2 years and I still regularly check for updates, but nothing comes...
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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, [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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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?
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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
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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 [...]
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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 [...]