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Friday, February 12. 2010Save South Shore Line 1100 CSSSB 1100 Chicago, South Shore & South Bend steel line car 1100 has been donated to the Illinois Railway Museum by the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District (NICTD). Though most remember it as a South Shore line car, 1100 was built in 1926 by the St. Louis Car Company as 376, a parlor car used with Indiana Service Corporation's Wabash Valley Flyer, the car was sold to the Indiana Railroad in 1932, and IRR 376 was rebuilt as a combination passenger/railway post office car in 1935. In 1941, 376 was sold to the South Shore where it was used as an express car before being converted to line car service in 1947. South Shore 1100 retired in 2003; in service for 77 years, the car served in four distinct types of electric railway service. In 2003, NICTD offered 1100 to a preservation group that proposed to restore the line car and feature it as a display in a new museum. Hard economic times caused their efforts to fall short, and 1100 remained in storage at the selected site in Michigan City, Indiana. Now the line car is ours and has been shipped to IRM. Your donation to the CSSSB 1100 Fund will help pay for the shipping costs, track space, and restoration costs for this historic car. As of January 2010, we have raised about 30% of our goal of $30,000. Monday, February 8. 2010Michigan Electric 28 Update - February 7, 2010 Getting in Shape Jeff Colandine, from the steam shop, was helping Jeff Brady on the shaper. Jeff B. (hiding behind the shaper dust pickup) installed some modifications to the shaper setup and we produced the raised panels for the baggage door project, slick as a whistle. At least the shaping was done very quickly and successfully on the long edges of the panel.  Worth a Closer Look Jeff C. is removing panel number four from the third pass through the shaper. This close up shows the top two edges complete for these double sided panels. It is very confusing to shout "Hey Jeff" and have two guys turn around. Maybe one of them should pick out a shop nickname. Of course Jeff Obarek was working in the Electric Car Shop so that makes it a triple play on "Jeff' for a Sunday afternoon.  Saddles While all the noise was being made in the west end of the shop, Ray Schmid was working on new saddles and by day's end they had all been primed.
Monday, February 8. 2010Wood Shop Update - February 7, 2010 2050 Project Victor Humphreys began the painting and finishing of the new windows produced for N&W 2050.  319 Windows Frank Hicks was continuing the priming on the project to renew windows on the CA&E 319.  Cleaning Up Dick Lukin stopped back in the shop after working on and visiting the new arrivals in Barn 8. Thank goodness for someone willing to help on the projects. Here he 'polices' the shaper area after ME 28 panel raising, while Jeff Brady works to construct a new fixture for the shaper. |
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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 [...]