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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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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...