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Sunday, June 6. 2010Freight Car and Other News - June 5, 2010 Hopper Repairs Our skilled 'master of metalwork', Mile Alterio, has been working his magic on our hopper GN 70104. Here, Victor Humphreys and John Faulhaber inspect the new tack board holders, straightened grab irons, and other work, including new brake bleed levers. Other freight car work included completing wood work on four new windows for IC 9792, with the help of John Faulhaber. Now they are off to the paint shop. Dodging rain showers, Victor Humphreys completed painting the roof on the URTX 26640 boxcar.  Pilot Two 'visiting firemen' were on hand to toil on the Michigan Electric 28. Here, Terry Borden is working on the catcher/pilot which was fabricated last year. With assistance form Walt Staffa, the beast was hung and in place, later in the day.  Illuminating Eric Lorenz continued work on CTS 4223. The headlight housing has been installed and here the fitting of the light itself proves troublesome. Later the crew worked on final mounting of the tail/stop lights on the rear, and then more work on the new doors. We finally found some time to work on the SS 68 and a new replacement window was fitted to the car opening, as well as some minor repairs to the window posts and paintwork on the upper sash. |
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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 [...]