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Thursday, September 23. 2010Wood Shop and other Views - September 22, 2010 A Clean Shop John Faulhaber is one of several folks who have worked in the past few weeks to help REALLY clean the wood shop area. As a reminder, the wood shop is closed to restoration work this coming weekend as we are hosting an annual event for us - this time about 100 folks from coast to coast all interested in old woodworking machines. And we have them!  Patching Steel Gerry Dettloff is working to piece in new steel and weld it all up on CRT 1797, the next wood L car restoration being done by Tim Peters. That end plate was pretty much like a lace doily - I suppose you can expect that on a car over a century old!  Another Silver Car Many of you have read of the exploits of our Wednesday Warriors, a group of fellows who volunteer on Special Projects. They are largely invisible since they do not attend IRM on weekends, but their work is certainly NOT invisible. This season they have been laboring on a lightweight smoothside baggage car from the CB&Q. I think I will go with 983 although there has been some confusion with the number 963. In this Photo, Paul Gasiorowski has been applying new silver to the north side of the car. This is a rare photo with the other cars stored in yard five out for last week's showcase operations, leaving us an empty track.  More Paint Wayne Bates is working on one of the sliding doors as Paul continues east with the paint roller.  Corner Repairs Meanwhile, Neal Schwingbeck is welding in new steel to repair some wrinkles sustained to the corner. If any of you saw this car a scant six months ago you would not believe it to be the same piece of equipment now! |
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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 [...]