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Thursday, March 1. 2012Wood Shop Update - February 29, 2011I suppose you will not see this much progress in the wood shop on this date for four more years (lame joke dept).  Windows Victor Humphreys and John Faulhaber are squaring up and clamping two more windows for Illinois Central 3996. Earlier, John went through the painstaking fitting of the last sash needed for this 'order' and then proceeded to glue up two more.  Patchwork Buzz Morisette continues on restoration of an interior door for our Illinois Terminal electric equipment. He is skillfully fitting a patch to one stile to replace rotted sections and then will add the bottom rail before gluing everything in place.  HMMM Victor Humphreys and Tim Peters are studying the schematics in an effort to complete work to use our large 20 inch tablesaw. A lot of effort has gone into this and it is needed now to saw large salvaged timbers destined for the CRT 1797 project. There was of course other work on site today. A crew was working to resolve electrical problems out in the Barns where our Milwaukee Electric dump motor D 13 lives, while in the shop we completed a new fireman's side window for N&W 2050, and made progress on a second similar window for the engineer's side of the cab. |
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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...