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Sunday, May 27. 2012News and Views - May 25, 26, 2012 Vera Cruz 19 A crew of three were on hand Friday to work on Vera Cruz 19. Mike Alterio, Frank Sirinek, and Mike Stauber were fabricating and fitting new metal at the base of the front dash. This is part of the often invisible work done by Frank and his crew for constant but incremental improvements to this car.  Buffy Also on hand for the above efforts was BUFFY who was acting as sort of a LINE SUPERVISOR or PROJECT MANAGER.  Playground Dave Diamond has been leading a large volunteer crew assembling components and now constructing the playset. Kind of wet in the morning, but I bet a dozen or so were working in the afternoon and it is taking shape.  End Floor One of the steel CTA 4000 L cars has been in the barn 4 shop areas for a number of years. Today, Rich Block came on a visit and was fabricating and cutting metal to allow re-pouring of lightweight concrete MASTIPAVE for the end vestibules.  Priming Victor Humphreys continues his almost one man efforts to restore the B&O wagon top boxcar. Here the first two sections of the south side have had all rust and old paint removed and now have been prime painted. No pic for this news item, but late in the afternoon, Tim Peters, Rich Block, and Bill Wulfert crawled under the CRT 1797 L car. You have seen the work done by Tim and others on the carbody and now on to the underbody, mechanical, and electrical systems. The air compressor was inspected, and they then discovered it could be rotated freely by hand. Not bad for something that has not operated on its own for half a century. This was truly a piece of good news. Sunday, May 27. 2012Steam Department Update 5-26-2012A second hand update this week as I was not there. It sounds like a good day's progress despite (or probably because of .. !!) my absence. Thanks to Phil for the input. Steady progress on 1630: · Bob and Phil worked around the UT measurement points to ensure that those where we could not get a clear signal last time are ready for retesting. We have confirmation that Tom will be back next Saturday to do this; · Bob now has the measurement packages for several of the sheets to allow work to progress on the form 4; · Eric was able to depth check most of the stays on the Fireman's side except for a small number where heavy lifting to remove grates will be required; · Bob needle chipped the wrapper sheet around the turbo generator and removed the last of the insulation in that area; · Phil cleaned off the top to the tender. Next we will need a spell of needle chipping to prepare it for painting. This is not an area that is visible to the onlooker but, being flat, it gathers water and needs to be well primed and painted to avoid rust; · Cameron and Phil started work on preparing the ends of the super heater flues for safe ending. These have to be ground to provide a taper into which the tapered end of the extension tube is fitted and welded. (These are not simply butt welded as it is important that, should the weld fail, the flue would not simply drop into two pieces); · Unfortunately the Sullair developed a problem which prevented sandblasting of the tube section that we need for the safe ending.. In other areas: · Paul continued needle chipping the truck of the Shay; · Ralph machined the last of the bull rings for 428; · A large team worked on the rivet furnace and the fire brick for the base has now been poured in situ. It looks as if this is now getting close to ready once the concrete has dried and will then need to be carefully fired to prevent cracking.
Nigel Sunday, May 27. 2012CGW X 38 Update - May 26, 2012The adventure begins! Baby steps to be sure, but we had two volunteers out on Saturday that eagerly (?) took up the challenge.  Left Wedge Florida resident, Kirk Warner, is needlechipping many old layers of paint off of the left side of the wedge plow. I bet you thought LEFT WEDGE referred to a new football formation.  Left Wing In keeping with the football theme, LEFT WING also is not referring to that sport (or to hockey?). Dick Cubbage is removing years of old paint, here on the left wing of the plow. |
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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 [...]