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Friday, April 27. 2012CNW or CGW 285 Which is it? Work continues Bondo Bill  Bare metal  Joe wirewheeling  Cleaning trucks  caulking windows  Rusty vestibule Thursday, April 26. 2012Wood Shop Update - April 25, 2012 Rapid Transit Restoration To change the order of things a bit, I thought you would all like to see the west end of Chicago Rapid Transit 1797. Tim Peters has been working on this end and now it appears to be complete, shiny paint, all the extras installed and in place.  East End And here Tim is being helped by Victor Humphreys as new end panels are getting installed. Sharp eyed viewers here may notice that this car was moved to a new spot over the weekend, and is now on Track 42. Tim is rapidly approaching the point where the majority of this car exterior is done, from the roof down to the bottom of the car sides. Do not worry, Tim is not one to take a rest and most of the car interior still needs attention.  More Herald The Great Northern 70104 hopper also shifted its spot. Victor set up a relocated scaffold and I managed to transfer the remaining artwork to the car side and started on the white lettering. You will note the guide lines for adjoining letters and border. Why am I so slow?  Art Work Bill Leider is restoring lettering on an early photo mural showing Pennsylvania Railroad steam. The item was damaged and if you read these entries regularly, Henry Vincent has constructed a frame and mounting backer. Bill is a talented graphic artist and he is painstakingly touching up damaged areas.  Windows What would shop work be without WINDOWS? Early in the morning we reassembled and glued up one of the clerestory windows from the Sand Springs 68, and Victor here is sanding a repaired window sash for Boston & Maine 1094.  Beading Whenever new sash are made, and in many cases when sound sash have to be reglazed, the small 'beading' must be recreated. You simply cannot go anywhere and purchase the correct cross section and in matching specie of wood. Victor and I fabricated something over 100 feet of this small mahogany molding for some of our Pullman car windows. In this case it resembles a quarter round with 5/16 inch radius but is cut assymetrical with two differing straight sides.  Rear Bench Seat The worker bees for Cleveland Transit 4223 were not idly watching the other work, although many of them continued to receive the safety review and training. But Lorne Tweed has cleaned, primed, and painted the sheet metal box for the rear seat in this PCC. Sunday, April 22. 2012Steam Department Update 4-21-2012A successful day at the steam shop. We now expect the ultrasonic testing to be done weekend of May 5th so yesterday was an opportunity to progress other activities in preparation. 1630 saw the light of day for the first time in nearly a year when we pulled her out to remove the throttle valve and allow cleaning of both the locomotive and the shop area where she has been sitting.
Eric and his father made good progress in testing the tell tale holes in the firebox stays. The engineer's side is now largely complete. By midday Jeff had the BrownHoist de-winterized and running and we were ready to shunt 1630 out of the shop.
Once outside we worked on the removal of the throttle body, which will be lapped to ensure a good seal when reassembled. This is an awkward piece that sits in the dome.
However, with some help removing cotter pins from inside the boiler, it was removed and taken to the shop. It has apparently been removed and refitted in the past with all the tubes in place. I have a lot of respect for the guys who achieved that !!.
It was good to see 1630 in steam again !!.
Seriously though, it was an opportunity to do some steam cleaning and the locomotive now looks a good deal better and easier to inspect.
The opportunity was also taken to clear the area around and under the locomotive, that had accumulated the most amazing collection of insulation debris and other muck as well as odd items that had fallen while working.
By end of day she was back in the shop and ready for ultrasonic testing. In other areas, Paul and the lads made good progress on needle chipping and wire brushing the Shay truck. Glenn over came a problem, that has developed in recent weeks, of the fork lift battery failing to hold a charge. Far from the suspected defective battery he found that a loose terminal and blown fuse in the line from the alternator meant the battery had not been connected to the charging system at all for the last few weeks!!. Next weekend will probably be quiet as many of us need to attend the rules exam. Nigel |
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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...