Illinois Railway Museum Blog

No pics this week but I thought I had better make a short post to let you all know we are alive and well, and still working 'on the cause'.  Here are some of the things we saw yesterday.

Tim Peters and Charlie Strong were working on the CA&E 451, bringing badly deteriorated train doors into the shop for work.  The plan is do a quick 'patch job' to get them painted with the rest of the car, and hope for time and money to have completely new ones manufactured in the shop, at a later date.

Rich Witt continued working on a new sash for the CA&E 409, and it remains for final trimming and fitting of parts to be completed and then off to the gluing press.

John Nelligan worked on the project for five new windows for B&M 1094 and Victor Humphreys and I assembled and glued the last frame in the series.

Pete Galayda painted some sign or ad cards for the TM 972.  And he completed measurung up and listing the seats inside for future upholstery work.  All you TM fans should send in your donations now so we can proceed with this.

Max Tyms and Roger Smessaert were toiling at more electrical mysteries in the plan to add 3 phase electrical service to the Barn 4 shop addition.

Henry Vincent was seen glazing one new window and fitting another to the ends of CNS&M 757.

Gerry Dettloff and Max Tyms were working on repairs to our heavy duty welding cables.  I would not be surprised to hear that the needed parts alone will run over $500.

Roger Kramer brought some wood inside and discussed making a whole new set of windows for the IC heavyweight diner.  If funds can be raised the plan would be to do some serious restoration on this car and remove it from the Halloween Event.  My opinion only, but this would be a good move for an historic car, which has suffered wear and tear due to being used in recent years for that event.

Sitting Down

Wayne Baksic is working to resize a bench seat cushion for the CNW 7700 passenger car.  Shelly V (not pictured) also worked on this.  Wayne is a jack of all trades and earlier he helped finish up the new dust pickup and grounding for the Delta HD shaper.

The Plane Truth

The Michigan Electric 28 crew was hard at work.  Norm Krentel is behind the ductwork 'catching' stock as it is discharged from the planer.  Jeff Brady moves to grab another panel to feed in, while Wayne Baksic looks on.

There was some additional shop work, fitting was completed for window number five, now ready to be glued and destined for our B&M 1094 passenger car, and some measurement and layout work on a new door.