Simon Harrison took over where Alex Randow left off last Saturday, and managed to make a lot of headway cleaning up the rear ceiling panel.
Lorne Tweed has masked off a lot of the interior front end and dashboard areas. He is about to paint cleaned and 'paint ready' areas underneath the dashboard. I stopped by to take a quick picture and spent 10 minutes reading an interesting story in the newspaper he used.
Frank Sirinek stopped his canvasing duties long enough to hold an impromptu 'class' in restoring window sash for the 4223. John McKelvey, Lorne Tweed, Frank Sirinek, Simon Harrison, and Pete Galayda are at the lecture hall, all the students are 'soaking up' Frank's knowledge and experiences.
While Frank demonstrated a lot of 'dos and don'ts', it appears there is no magic bullet for these aluminum framed sash, so some time will be spent before being ready to finally install in the car.
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...