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Sunday, November 15. 2009Barn 4 Addition Update, November 14, 2009 The Telephone Department IRM volunteers swing into action with Wally Ostopowski and Les Ascher installing cable for telephone service in the new addition.  Sheathing And the contractor was out working on a Saturday. Most of the insulation has been installed in the wall cavities, and they were busy installing plywood sheathing to finish the walls in the soon to be shop area. Sunday, November 15. 2009Light TowerFor some months now, the Building and Grounds Department has been working on an aerial light tower for our parking lot. This has become more important with after dark events like the Terror on the Railroad and the upcoming Holiday Train event. Ray Piesciuk has posted pics in the IRMlist Photo files on Yahoo and Pete Galayda sent me these. The tower was erected last Friday November 12, 2009. If you think it has a railroad 'flavor' you are correct - it was salvaged, moved, reassembled and now installed; having originally served to light a rail yard area.  Getting Ready  Setting Lift Cables  Going Up  Vertical  Onto the Anchor Bolts  Done Not real sunny and at times downright windy - but the crew got 'er done! |
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Mon, 09-08-2025 08:22
Good job on the Burlington Nortern 9976. OK.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:56
No new news that I have heard of thus far.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:53
I'll also be doing another update on it soon. Keep en eye out for that.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:47
A little work was done to it for Diesel Days this year. You'll see photos floating around for the temporary short term job that was done to make it [...]
Wed, 08-06-2025 13:01
Is steam car CN 15444 going to be coming to museum several times it was to be moved to muesum
Sat, 07-19-2025 18:56
Yeah, sadly it's still there as of 7/19/2025
Thu, 06-12-2025 19:14
Its been 14 years guys, where is the unit? Like really? Did you guys misplace it? Or are repairs taking that long? At this point be might we will have [...]
Wed, 04-09-2025 17:40
Jamie Thanks for the update. She's gonna shine like every thing else you guys do! Smeds
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...