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Monday, June 18. 2012News and Views - June 16, 2012Again, here is a sampling of some of the other work I passed by during the day.  Clear Board Volunteer Frank Carraro has been working to restore and upgrade communications equipment in our depot office. Here, you will see a green card behind one of the bay window sash. This represents an early form of communicating a train order to the crew of a train arriving at the station. A yellow board and a red board are also built and can be displayed for instructing the crews.  Fuse Box Our Cleveland PCC needs to have this fuse box restored. It contains a ribbon fuse and is mounted on the roof just after the voltage and current are delivered from the trolley pole. Eric Lorenz and Lorne Tweed are fitting together pieces and will be repairing and remaking some of the parts that were too water damaged to be reused.  Trolley Boards When the rains came, we moved inside the shop and milled four new pieces of Douglas fir to be used for new trolley boards on the CTS 4223. Lorne and Eric inspect the results.  Wagon Top Victor Humphreys just quietly goes about the business of restoring our B&O wagon top boxcar. Here the top panel of the door on the right side has had rust and old paint removed and has been reprimed. Good choice of primer, huh? Almost the same color as the rusty metal! Monday, June 18. 2012CGW X 38 Update - June 16, 2012As mentioned in the steam report, we had a squall line with heavy rain coming through in late morning, and that changed our plans somewhat.  It Will Gobble You Up, Don Burkett Photo  It Will Gobble You Up This shows the difference between a true PHOTOGRAPHER, someone who knows what they are doing - and a point and click hack like me. This is not a view that most snowplows have had recorded. But if you are ever standing in front of one, it resembles or reminds you of nothing else than a giant set of jaws ready to gobble you up. Stand aside. We are very fortunate to have new member/volunteer Don Burkett to share his work at IRM with us. Look for more of it in the future. I could see the potential DRAMA in a head on shot as I was standing there, but could not capture it with the camera.  Windows This sure does not look like a window. But Buzz Morisette continues to work on closing up openings in the X 38. Dodging the weather, he moved into the shop to cut up some plywood blanks for the openings. Other openings have some parts of the old frames existent and he is re-glueing and patching them together. Not strictly a finished restoration but it will safeguard the equipment and buy us some time to make new ones over the coming winter.  Left Wing New volunteer Tom Bernacki is finishing up the last small area to be ready for painting. Tom is a careful and energetic worker, and flexible enough to dart into the shop when the rain began; he helped make sawdust from some new timber. Thank you Tom, it was a pleasure. And yes, Victor Humphreys got all that primed before leaving for the day. In my case the higher you remove yourself form terra firma, the somewhat slower the work goes. Sunday, June 17. 2012 |
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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
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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 [...]
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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 [...]