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Monday, March 5. 2012Wood Shop Update - March 3-4, 2012I spent a lot of time this weekend on admin chores, meetings, things which disrupted my plans to take more pics.  Windows Victor Humphreys is working on a new engineer's cab window for Norfolk & Western 2050. The new fireman's window is complete except for parts we are waiting for from the Steam Department. Buzz Morisette helped out in the afternoon and much of the tricky work is done.  Pressing Work Jeff Brady is at our hydraulic press with a brakehead for the TM 972 truck. As we have been reporting here, new pins and bushings are being fabricated on site to renew and provide years of service for the brakes and rigging.  A Clear Picture Ray Schmid is cleaning up the second piece of cathedral prism glass for the Michigan Electric 28 upper sash windows. This car has paired windows for the upper sash, two windows wide. AND it has two windows for every opening, an inner sash and an outer storm window type of sash over that inner one. So you BLOG readers can look forward to seeing a lot of "window" entries here in the future.  Mounting Ray and Dan Fenlaciki are mounting the cleaned glass into a previously prepared and restored wood sash frame. Both inner and outer sash use the cathedral style prismatic art glass, but the inside of the glass for the inside sash is frosted, as compared to the conventional clear glass inside of the outer sash. Got that? Monday, March 5. 2012Acquisition NewsDEJA VU - ALL OVER AGAIN! Yes, folks, it is time to re-new an old friendship and an old project.  Erich Russ Photo At almost this same time four years ago we were hot on the trail of CGW 4051, a rare Russell Snow Plow. This is a piece of equipment not represented in our collection, is a piece of Midwest railroad history, and few if any remain today. The plow was built by Russell in 1936 as a single track version of a wedge plow, and was delivered as CGW X 38. IRM Board approval was in place, we had but a few weeks to make this happen before the threat of scrapping would begin. At the last minute we were advised that another preservation group had moved in and 'poached' this piece and IRM was out of the picture. UP had donated it to them. FAST FORWARD. The plow still exists and sits where pictured above in Milwaukee. The other group failed to execute a move to their site, and it still needs to be 'gone' from the railroad. The other group did not comply with the terms of the agreement to move that piece, and have been contacted by IRM Executive Director Nick Kallas. They make no claims as to ownership or have any further interest in this plow. So we are back in the race! Yesterday Nick and another member were on site in Wisconsin preparing for a move of the plow to IRM. It could happen SOON! I have gone back and done a search for messages on the IRMlist site - it was our defacto BLOG and CHAT site at the time. There are many posts in that string and many of you came forward with interest in the project and pledged donor support. NOW IS THE TIME to make good on your pledges. And perhaps to increase the promised amount?? Anyone else out there, please consider helping to cover the costs of this acquisition, help is needed. Mark your donation for CGW 4051. Thank you.
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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 [...]