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Thursday, November 4. 2010The EMD Sign Is Up!Another long running project has been the installation of the EMD sign west of the Hoffman Garage. Today the B&G crew raised the sign into place!!! Here are a few photos.  EMD Sign 11/04/2010  EMD Sign 11/04/2010  EMD Sign 11/04/2010  EMD Sign 11/04/2010 Thursday, November 4. 2010Wood Shop and Other News - November 3, 2010WEST TOWNS EXTRA! Chicago and West Towns 141 has been a long running restoration project with over ten years of volunteer resources and thousands of dollars invested. This week it overcame a major milestone on its way to becoming operational.  First Motor Actually this is the installation of the first motor in the second truck. Some background from earlier in the week - Monday, one of the trucks was pulled from a storage barn and placed under the car for testing fit of new center bearings and other critical possible interferences. Tuesday the four motors were delivered to our site and one pair of motors was placed in that truck and the car jacked up. The temporary shop truck was removed and the permanent truck installed, so at the end of the day the west end was complete.  Hanging Motor Wednesday usually sees a good turnout of volunteers and this was no exception. The first motor is hanging above the axle to allow the axle cap bearings to be installed.  Car Body The car body had been placed on jacks inside the barn and here you see it waiting for the second motor truck to be rolled in.  Second Motor Many pitched in, not doing their planned work, and by Noon break, the second motor was lowered into place. There is not a lot of wasted space in these McGuire Cummings trucks, once the motors, gear pans, brake rigging is in place. By mid afternoon the second truck was in place under the car with the carbody firmly seated with everything fitting as planned.  Molding Back in the wood shop Rich Witt worked to produce two different custom moldings for the B&M 1094 passenger car. Above see Jack Biesterfield hand sanding and cleaning up what turned out to be an unusual profile. The second variation was also completed by the end of the workday.  Sanding Randall Hicks turned to the window sanding task yet again, for a few hours. For those of you keeping score these are the last four side windows for the CA&E wood car resplendent in gray and red that you all saw unveiled on July 4th. Rich Witt did some other window planning work, Victor Humphreys put some machinery away for winter storage, George Clark was on hand for work on the LSE 810, and I managed to sneak in some more electrical work on the Sand Springs 68. Out of twenty, five of the passenger signal buttons are restored and working.
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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 [...]