Illinois Railway Museum Blog

Open and Shut

Tim Peters has several of the large doors removed from CRT 1797 and is engaged in patching woodwork, filling, sanding (LOTS of sanding), and restoring them to be replaced in the carbody.

A Window By Any Other Name

Bill Moran is looking over the plans and sample original window from B&M 1094.  He and Rich Witt did a lot of detective work to make more measurements and resolve discrepancies in the carbody openings.  We started cutting the rough stock for a new one today but were not able to get all the pieces from the wood furnished to us by the project team.

More Nosing

Eric Lorenz was back on the job fitting more rubber nosing strips for CTS 4223.  Earlier entries here showed the nosing and their installation on the four rear door leafs for this car.  These are for the front door leafs.

An Insider

Meanwhile Ed Waytula was working on the front door leafs inside the car.  Tough to get an image here, but you get the idea.

Wiring

And here is rare shot of me inside Sand Springs 68.  Bill Moran also helped a bit with this project today.  Here there was a lot of tracing of circuits and wiring to complete the hookup of all twenty passenger signal buttons.  It should have been easier, but here I am inside one of the end seat boxes making the last three connections.  They all worked!!