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Thursday, June 11. 2009Wood Shop Update June 7, 2009 CRT 1268 Ends Tim Peters is behind the scaffolding but you can see the good progress he is making on the east end of this car. Come out on the 4th of July, you may see this car get some exercise in the Trolley Parade!! If so, for the first time in years, and with a lot of improvements and restoration work to boot.  Tenoner Shelley Vandershagen is helping Wayne Baksic as they work on our HB Smith tenoner. The new machine guards are nearing completion. Monday, June 8. 2009Passenger Dept Update 2009-06-07The passenger Dept is getting ready for the RPO weekend coming this week. Sunday Nick, Marc and Shelly spent the biggest chunk of day washing the car, getting most of the graffiti off. Marc has done a great job with touchup paint, and he is really having a good time with the event. As with many events we begin, it has become bigger and bigger every year. On the other fronts, we have made progress on the stair repair to the DLW coach with the owie, and Mike hopes to have it out for brake testing and service this weekend. Roger has been steadily making progress on paint removal on the vestibule of the John McGlothan. The electrical feeder to the Dover Strait is moving along. Streamliner sleeper set will be open for display both days this weekend, and I hope to get a good set of photos of the events for the website. Everyone come on out and have a good time this week! Monday, June 8. 2009Chicago Surface Lines 3142 - June 6, 2009As many of you may have heard we recently suffered a traction motor failure on this car and that has sidelined it from service. And this car has been a real work horse and much needed to handle riders in our summer operating season.  Jack Up the Car Frank Sirinek, Kirk Warner, and Dick Cubbage check clearances under the platform as the car is jacked up to allow the motor truck to be rolled out. This is a tricky operation, and of course motor cables, brake rigging, and a lot of other prep work must be done before this stage is reached.  The Truck! The truck is out and there looks to be a lot of finger pointing going on. Several members rose to the occasion and dropped their projects to assist in this. Needless to say the motor was removed and readied for shipment at the end of the day, with no mishaps and the truck restored back under the carbody. GOOD WORK! |
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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 [...]