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Monday, November 21. 2011News and Views - November 19-20, 2011 Mortising Tim Peters has suffered another bicycle accident, yet he was in the shop on crutches, here balanced before our mortising machine as he works on another 'production' run of many more new windows for the CRT 1797.  Painting This is the only image I managed for the CTS 4223 project, so I will not post a separate entry for just this. Several folks worked lustily this weekend and the result is this collection of many loose parts. These are to be primed and painted off site, many cans of paint and primer set out. Most of these have been dry fitted to the carbody, and once painted, will allow us to mount them to the carbody, making a big impact in the visual 'completeness' of the car.  Yes More Windows Roger Kramer made another of his regular appearances, working in the woodshop. This time continuing to make little pieces of mahogany from big pieces, new windows for the IC heavyweight. Monday, November 21. 2011ME 28 Update - November 20, 2011 Upper Sash The first rebuilt windows for this car have been received after being processed by an outside contractor. Ray Schmid is sanding them down and applying additional coats of polyurethane to protect them. This car has paired sets of regular side windows below a long double width upper sash, seen here. And each window has the regular sash and an additional storm sash outside of that.  Lower Sash The lower sash are also sanded and here you see Ray applying the smooth top coat of polyurethane. See how it shines?  Side Windows Meanwhile out in the carbarn, Norm Krentel is giving the window openings a thorough going over, removing many layers of old paint, and making needed repairs.  End Roof And Jeff Brady is continuing to work on the new end roof. This becomes very complex and more or less requires a SCULPTOR rather than an ordinary guy with some carpenter skills. Jeff is the man for the job. Sunday, November 20. 2011Trivia quiz (Clue - Signalling)When in the UK recently I visited the museum at the Severn Valley Railway. This interesting piece of hardware was in the signalling section. Similar items to this were part of the rules test when I was firing on a preserved line in the UK some years ago.  Strange object Who can explain what it is? Nigel |
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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...