Electric Car Department

West End

Pete Galayda nd John Faulhaber continue to work on the painting project and the progress really shows.  Here is the newly painted west end of the car.

I guess I will throw in a few pics with an Electric Car Department Theme, unusual and behind the scenes views.

CA and E

Randal Hicks and son Frank Hicks fill and test marker lights for planned night time operations.  The unusual photo caption is due to software limitations of trying to use an ampersand in the caption.

South Shore

The South Shore 803 was brought out for display on the west leg of the wye.  Paying attention to details such as mounting the marker lights really adds a finishing touch to such an effort.

Pilot

Wes Lloyd was enlisted as the pilot for the first revenue runs of the year for the Sand Springs 68.

Motorman

And that is yours truly hiding behind the farebox, as we get ready to pull out of Barn 4.

Greg Stepanek Photo

Yesterday we trotted out the Sand Springs 68, and we went over to the Barn 4 pit area for maintenance and inspection duties.  Two relatively minor defects were noted (not real serious) along with the more routine oiling around, etc.  That completed, we continued around the car line loop and back to Barn 4.

Since the car first became operational at IRM after 4 decades of restoration work, I have kept a log of when and how much mileage was run.  (Maybe this is a sign of age, or worse yet, obsessive compulsive disorder.)

As of yesterday the Sand Springs 68 has traveled at IRM under its own power for 68 miles!