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Thursday, December 1. 2011BN 9908 progress
On Tuesday night, Kyle M worked to remove some additional rot spots on the engineers side of the nose. This takes some time since there are a few layers of steel skin and angle iron supports to cut through, and not hit anything behind it all. Meanwhile I started to weld some new steel supports around the firemans side nose, along with adding some support to the side of the mount for the cab signal box. A new sheet has been cut to wrap around that side, and will be fitted and installed in the coming days. There are many more photos available than are shown in this blog, and are shown here with the most recent being shown first. This photo album will more than likely be updated more often than the blog, but we'll do our best to keep both up to date.
Thursday, December 1. 2011Wood Shop Update - November 30, 2011 Stanchions Frank Sirinek and Mike Alterio have been working to reconstruct a fairly elaborate system of stanchions and railings on the two Chicago & West Towns 141 platforms. Frank has a handful of very special fittings and each pipe is custom cut and threaded to fit.  Windows Tim Peters with some of the recently completed windows for CRT 1797. Of course no window is really complete until painted, glazed and installed in the car. But he continues to fit and fine tune, add details to these sash. Maybe I should just use the word WINDOWS to caption each photo - I think there was work on windows for no fewer than seven different car projects in the shop yesterday.  Framed Henry Vincent continues to lead work on creating displays. Here he is painting some trim molding to frame one of his recent constructions.  Mortising John Faulhaber is doing the mortising for two new windows for the passenger car, GLEN SPRINGS.  Framed, Again In almost record time, Rich Witt and John display two fitted frames, ready for gluing. And in fact, that happened and was accomplished by the end of the work day.  Windows Victor Humprheys was painting the interior sides of four new windows for N&W 2050. These were fairly tricky to make for us, although I am sure a journeyman cabinetmaker of a century ago, dealt with these routinely.  Parts Parts for windows, that is. Simon Harrison, Roger Kramer, and Richard Witt are thickness planing a large pile of parts - for windows! These are destined to become nine new sash for a passenger car, Illinois Central 3996.  Pullman Window Roger Kramer has completed a sash for our Pullman car INGLEHOME. It sure will look good installed in that car. Thursday, December 1. 2011CTS 4223 Update - November 26-30, 2011 Wiring Here is a short report on recent activity for this project. Eric Lorenz is wrestling some new wiring into submission. Could this become a new Olympic event? It is premature to consider any of this in use in the near future, but as panels are re-installed, this wiring will become inaccessible, so Eric is making up and installing several harnesses.  Clearly Simon Harrison continues to work to rehabilitate some of the many sash needed for the side windows. The aluminum frames are quite dirty and discolored, but with some elbow grease can be made quite presentable. So we are experimenting with applying two coats of a clear finish to prevent further oxidation. |
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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 [...]
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...
Mon, 12-27-2021 16:28
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, [...]
Wed, 10-13-2021 13:33
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.
Mon, 06-07-2021 22:40
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 [...]
Wed, 06-02-2021 17:27
Nice to see 428's cab back on. Looking forward to when it is operable!
Tue, 06-01-2021 16:47
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 [...]
Sat, 04-17-2021 23:07
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?
Wed, 04-14-2021 21:09
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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Hi IRM my name is Jason and I was wonder If you guys would be willing to save a CN Dash8-40cm they are currently being retired by CN and being [...]
Fri, 04-09-2021 19:56
Bear in mind that the Nebraska Zephyr is an articulated train set, so cars cannot be inserted at will. Although cars and/or a second engine could be [...]
Wed, 03-31-2021 11:37
I believe Silver Pony is currently on the back burner, and has been put into storage in one of the barns. The car needs a lot of work done to it's [...]