Illinois Railway Museum Blog

Work Plans

We had a very good turnout today and the crew for Cleveland Transit System 4223 gathered around some MORE window tracks to be restored.  Welcome back to Simon Harrison after a short leave for personal business, joined by Al Reinschmidt, Lorne Tweed and Jim Leonard.  Jim is a new volunteer and we would like to welcome him to the crew.

Rustbuster

Dave Rogan was on hand and has earned the nickname RUSTBUSTER as he went to work cleaning old paint and rust from interior sheet metal trim pieces for this PCC - CTS 4223.  Lorne Tweed continued prep work in the back seat bench area in the interior, and some more cleaned window frames had clear finish applied.

Art

Also a hearty welcome to Don Ingwersen, a Great Dane who Dave Rogan coaxed along to join us today.  Don has jumped right in, preparing artwork for lettering on Boston & Maine 1094, one of our passenger cars being restored.

The End

Not the end of the project, just a lot more progress by Tim Peters on the west end of Chicago Rapid Transit 1797.  New steel panels are in, hardware and fittings hung, and touch up painting pictured here.

Not a lot more pictures were taken by me, but Buzz Morisette and Victor Humphreys worked on passenger window repair, I resumed lettering work on our GN 70104 hopper, Frank Sirinek and Mike Alterio worked on Chicago & West Towns 141, I did a little more polishing of brass fittings for the interior of Sand Springs 68, a crew was working on body work for the NYCTA R-28 cars (outdoors on a VERY windy day), and the TM D 13 was out in the sun, no doubt getting attention from Gerry Dettloff and John Faulhaber.