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Thursday, March 11. 2010Wood Shop Update - March 10, 2010 The DOOR Rich Witt and Victor Humphreys are assembling "THE DOOR" one more time as a dry fit, this time with the raised panels in place. A little tweaking followed and we should be ready for glue up in a few weeks and then move on to a similar door needed for the station building.  Turning We do not usually need much use of a lathe for turning parts, but here is Bill Leiter spinning out some knobs for the crew doing the work on CB&Q 993. He just returned from a trip to Florida and remarked that it was warmer up here! The way the snow was melting at 62 F we may be going directly from snow skiing on the campus to water skiing. Thursday, March 11. 2010CCW 300 Update - March 10, 2010 HMMMM Work is resuming at a faster rate on the CCW 300 locomotive. Remember that most of the heart and soul of that crew essentially took a year off to repaint the TM 972. So, here is John Nelligan studying the electrical circuits diagram. There are a lot of loose cables on the engine, dismantled during early work years ago. If these were marked or tagged, such has largely disappeared, so we may need to call in Sherlock Holmes to unravel some of the mysteries. |
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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 [...]