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Monday, July 25. 2011Barn 4 Work - July 24, 2011 Water Everywhere I mentioned in the previous post that I was forced to change plans, and that is why no report for Saturday. Here is the reason, a dim image that greeted me at the first crack of dawn, about three feet of water on our street.  Window Posts Tim Peters is now attacking the carbody posts on the north side of CRT 1797. This wooden L car originally was a semi-convertible design, and Tim has found evidence of that. It seems odd to me that the side windows could be raised up into and stored between the ceiling and roof, but that is the way it was. Imagine an 'open car' on the elevated!  Lifts Kirk Warner was able to join us for the weekend as part of an intermission on a business trip. We went into the Sand Springs 68 and started the installation of the hardware that the Wednesday shop guys have so perfectly buffed, polished and restored. Kirk is driving the four wood screws per lift on the first window.  One Done Then Kirk insisted I take a test drive, and they seemed to work perfectly. Monday, July 25. 2011ME 28 Update - July 24, 2011Due to a change in plans I was able to journey to IRM on Sunday and got these images of work on the ME 28. Progress continues.  Roof Panels Jeff Brady was installing the last two new roof panels. This has really been a lot of work and those guys are to be congratulated.  Front End Completing the curved roof sheathing on the front and rear ends cannot be far away. On the front end, Norm Krentel has installed a type J governor on the interior bulkhead and here he is fabricating and routing air piping for it. The governor is a device that senses the pressure in the air line and serves to start or to stop the compressor on the car as needed. Once the roof work is done access to this area will be severely limited, so the crew is doing some forward thinking to put this in now. Much of the wiring and other work in this area has also been repaired or in some cases installed new. |
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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...