Feast or famine - lots of pics yesterday, not so much today.
Jim Windmeier was out again, this time touching up the green paint on the boxes, and seen here painting the feet black. He also cut the needed rubber pads for them, and the anti slip strips for the top steps.
There was a full crew of four working on the Michigan Electric 28 including Terry Borden from Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Warren Neuhauser has been leading the work on our MILW X-5000 dynamometer car, and he brought his team members over to the wood shop for a meeting. We discussed producing some needed woodwork for the ceiling in the car.
Dan Fenlaciki worked on installing four new drop sash for CA&E 451 while his father, Jon, continued restoring the brass framed side windows for the car. It was reported that the first red paint was applied to one end of this car.
On the same project we continued with a bit of work to produce 26 new wood roof saddles made from white oak.
I managed a little more wiring work on Sand Springs 68, and we saw brush holders being repaired, and rebuilt trolley retrievers getting new paint in the electric car shop, while George Clark continued making wood parts for Lake Shore Electric 810 in the wood shop.
Comments
Mon, 09-08-2025 08:22
Good job on the Burlington Nortern 9976. OK.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:56
No new news that I have heard of thus far.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:53
I'll also be doing another update on it soon. Keep en eye out for that.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:47
A little work was done to it for Diesel Days this year. You'll see photos floating around for the temporary short term job that was done to make it [...]
Wed, 08-06-2025 13:01
Is steam car CN 15444 going to be coming to museum several times it was to be moved to muesum
Sat, 07-19-2025 18:56
Yeah, sadly it's still there as of 7/19/2025
Thu, 06-12-2025 19:14
Its been 14 years guys, where is the unit? Like really? Did you guys misplace it? Or are repairs taking that long? At this point be might we will have [...]
Wed, 04-09-2025 17:40
Jamie Thanks for the update. She's gonna shine like every thing else you guys do! Smeds
Thu, 03-06-2025 16:28
Yes, there is a wye. Those two have been MU'ed on diesel days a year or two ago.
Wed, 03-05-2025 14:04
7009 number boards look good. Is there a way to turn a locomotive around at IRM? In case you ever had a mind to connect 7009 and 6847?
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...