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Monday, December 5. 2011Heavyweight Sleeper JOHN McLOUGHLIN UpdateLast mentioned in June of this year, Mark Hoffman and I have made some fine progress in repainting this car. Bottomline, the vestibule which was primed in June is now painted a lovely PULLMAN GREEN!! All parts that were taken off more than a year ago are also now reattached. The Winter phase is upon us. That is surface prepping parts of the roof for painting next Spring. Please stop buy barn 3 to view the progress. Donations? .....yes, the "John" could use a few dollars. Thanks in advance for your donation directed to fund RMCLOU. The next really big job is to locate a buffer stored outside in the material yard. Interested in lending a helping hand? See Mark or myself for an exciting afternoon of FUN at the ole train yard. Thanks..... Roger Kramer. Monday, December 5. 2011BN 9908, shining and new steel
There was a bit of progress made on the 9908 in the past few days. On Thursday, the first section of new steel was formed and welded into place on the firemans side of the nose. This was done by cutting a flat sheet to the correct dimensions and placing a close bend to fit the horizontal curve of the nose. The flat portion was welded into place on the side, and then some relief cuts made in a few places to allow the patch to bend on the vertical curve. All the seams were V'ed and welded into place. On Friday night, Riley and Jeron began to wipe the panels on the engineers side, making them shine right up. The BN used Imron paint, so some rags with lacquer thinner does a great job cleaning off the rust streaks and dead paint. They completed about 4 side sheet panels in a short time. There are many more photos available than are shown in this blog, and are shown here with the most recent being shown first.
Monday, December 5. 2011Wood Shop Update - December 3, 2011Please note that reports with this title are not all about making sawdust. It is a communal shop space and shared freely (sometimes).  Engineering Rich Witt works on engineering the details for the next batch of passenger car windows in the shop cue. It is always a good idea to have a plan and know what to do, and in this case Rich found a conflict and proposed a good solution. Other window work proceeded for passenger cars. Two new sash for the Glen Springs, were a loose pile of incomplete parts a week ago, and by today fitted, glued, and finish sanded.  ATSF 1400 Buzz Morisette is building new replacement windows for the captioned wood caboose. AND - he has raised the money to buy those supplies and materials. Of course it is not too late for you to help with a donation to this project.  CRT 1797 The twenty two new windows being fabricated for this car by Tim Peters move ahead. All of those were processed through our Berlin Sander (along with two additional sash) in about an hour. It does a great job, and saves an ENORMOUS amount of time. A few years ago we would be considering it an accomplishment to assemble and finish two new windows in a two months. Yet we moved significantly ahead on 24 in a single morning. In the above image, Tim is trimming off the extensions of the side stiles. Just as on the originals, the sash are assembled with these extensions to protect against handling and make the assembly easier. Then they are simply and quickly trimmed back using a jig and the tablesaw.  Molding Cutters John Naglich brings over more molding knives while Victor Humphreys begins to clean a cabinet to store them. This collection of railroad molding profile knives has been in the museum for years, but is now finally taking its place in the wood shop. Victor also painted four new sash for the N&W 2050 steam locomotive. There is a separate entry for a lot of work on the Cleveland PCC and oddly enough for early December, temperatures were mild enough to allow some more lettering work on our GN hopper. Mike Stauber and Frank Sirinek continued on restoration work on one truck for our TM 972 streetcar. |
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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
Wed, 04-14-2021 15:26
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 [...]