Illinois Railway Museum Blog

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.