General Blog Entries

I am going to post this entry under the GENERAL category since a lot of subjects are covered.

Smooth

The Depot Street paving is done, ON SCHEDULE!  The Buildings and Grounds crew, led by Dave Diamond, and the many volunteers who contributed and worked on this complex project deserve a lot of credit.  Throughout the day visitors enjoyed the new surface and the B&G crew added finishing touches including dressing the shoulders.

New Loop

As part of the same paving contract as Depot Street, the paving for the new trolley bus loop was completed.  Here, John Myhre is looking at the old overhead turning wye while you can see the paving in the background.

Where It Began

The Indiana Railroad 65 was the first car acquired at the founding of IRM.  Dan Fenlaciki looks sharp in the motorman's seat, as the car made a rare appearance for some service trips for the public.

Tail Hose

Rich Witt has become a very dedicated and productive member of the wood shop crew.  His other passion is Operations and he is hooking up a tail hose brake valve on the passenger train.  This is a connection to the train line air pipe to allow a crew member on the rear platform to stop the train from that position during a back up move.

Tack Molding

Speaking of the wood shop, Tim Peters is making new tack molding for CRT 1797.  He has set up a unique system of fences and guides and machined the last profile on some long ten foot boards, BY HIMSELF.

The Next Door

The heat outdoors was brutal and in the afternoon, Victor Humphreys and I were going to proceed to the next steps on a new door.  We got sidetracked when Tom Schneider came by for a visit.  He is steadily improving healthwise and is no longer needing to wear the suitcase monitor for his heart.  It was very good news to see him up and about looking so chipper and with a good attitude.

I am going to close this entry here and add another covering work on our B&O wagon top boxcar.  This is an ongoing major restoration project so I have opened a new sub category under the main Freight Car Department category.  If you are not taking advantage of all the various software options on the IRM BLOGS, here are a few tips.  On the right hand side there is a CATEGORY TREE.  If there is a plus sign in the little square box for each topic you may click on that to expand the category topics.  Clicking on any category will filter other entries and allow you to read updates, in order, for that single topic.

For any blog entry, the images are thumbnails.  Clicking on the thumbnail will expand the image and you may scroll forward and back for any of the images in a single entry.  AND - at that point, if you go to the upper left corner of the expanded image you will see a small square icon pop up and clicking on that gives a full size blowup of the single image.  WOW!