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Thursday, October 20. 2011Wood Shop Update - October 19, 2011Today will be a series of short posts - lots going on with MANY projects.  Sign Frame Henry Vincent has designed and is building a substantial frame toward displaying a vintage Pennsylvania photo mural.  Trimming Rich Witt assists Henry in trimming off a ragged edge on the mural. This had been stored and moved for many years at IRM and some damage resulted from the handling. Volunteer Bill Leiter has promised to use his graphic arts experience to help restore some of the damaged areas.  Canvasing I know this is a poor image but a tough environment to get a better one. Tim Peters and Frank Sirinek spent most of the day stretching and tacking down new canvas on the roof of wood car CRT 1979.  Siding Henry Vincent and Gerry Dettloff spent part of the afternoon installing new siding on Lake Shore Electric 810. Tuesday, October 18. 2011GN 70104 Update - October 15-16, 2011It is a 'process'. We finally completed the milestone event of having the carbody repainted and it looks great. Now, on to applying a fairly elaborate lettering scheme. This began years ago researching the scheme, acquiring copies of old photos, tracing what remnants remained of the old lettering, redrawing most of it, some on a computer CAD system, getting that printed full scale, and cutting out transfer patterns and stencils.  It Begins Finally it was time to put the icing on the cake. The first transfer pattern is positioned in place on the car.  Big G And the first letter painted on the car! The bright white lettering provides a marked contrast and snaps out the red. The car remains inside Barn 4 for the time being, so some of these shots will be color challenged in the dim light.  Next Patterns The patterns for the next three letters have been placed on the side. Can you guess what this string will say?  Big N Each letter is painted by hand, in this case with a half inch brush and premium lettering enamel.  The First Four Here is the progress as of Sunday night. It is starting to take shape. Tuesday, October 18. 2011CTS 4223 Update - October 15, 2011Following the recent pattern, there were several volunteers pitching in on the Cleveland PCC  Sandblasting Alex Randow began the day by sandblasting over 100 fasteners to be ready for priming and painting.  Removal Inside the PCC car are two large ceiling panels that some have referred to as 'clamshells'. When the body dismantling was done years ago to make steel repairs, these remained inside the car. Now we are faced with removing old paint and refinishing them INSIDE THE CAR! That is both good news and bad news. Right now they are too large to remove through the door openings, and if they had been removed earlier, they would be too large to get back in. Here, Lorne Tweed is removing old light fixtures and other hardware on the one that goes in the rear of the car ceiling.  Goodbye Paint Alex Randow 'volunteered' to start the old paint removal. Actually he was quite cheerful about it, not needing serious arm twisting. He is doing a fine job as you can see on the upper portion of this panel.  Welding Ed Grzesik returned to continue welding repairs on the front dashboard area. Of course any volunteer usually earns a nickname. In Ed's case his fine work resulted in fellow workers referring to him as "THE WELDER" in a reverent tone.  Side Windows Eric Lorenz has been kept very busy sorting out the next steps and keeping the new volunteers busy. But he managed to start work on the first of the side windows. Here he is installing two of the old extruded aluminum window tracks.  First One Here is the first side window installed as sort of a test to determine fit and any repairs needed to install those many old parts in the car openings. This will be a long process with many parts needing to be cleaned and repaired, holes to be drilled and tapped. But here is a hint of what each window will look like as they are in place. |
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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 [...]
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Happy New Year to all the Departments at the Illinois railway Museum! Thanks for all the good work you do in railroad preservation. Ted Miles, [...]
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Was the CB&Q 1309 every transported to IRM?I’ve been reading old issues of Rail&Wire and the car was mentioned several times.
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I was wondering if in the model layout display what scale would you guys be using and would you be displaying model train history as well? Just [...]
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Nice to see 428's cab back on. Looking forward to when it is operable!
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I hope the work will continue on the UP #428. Now that they are the museum's connection to the national railroad network; she would be very [...]
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What is the status of 126, the Milwaukee Buffet car that is in S. Dakota? Any guess on when or if it will get to IRM?
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Perhaps it is time to scrap the remains of the c, B & Q 7128 to make room for the Villa Real. Ted miles, IRM member
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