Illinois Railway Museum Blog

I am going to post these under the Wood Shop title rather than create many posts with perhaps only a single image for that topic.  The heat was withering again, at or above 100F so breaks were frequent and work moved inside our shops.

CGW X 38

Jim Leonard is beside the Russel plow and you can see work has progessed on the needlechipping and priming of the car body.  Dick Cubbage and Kirk Warner have helped on this.  For this project we continued to fabricate new framing timbers to replace those lost or damaged inside the body.

MILW X 5000

Buzz Morisette has taken on assisting those working on the dynamometer car and here is seen trying to lay out some curved wood framing for inside the car.

MILW X 5000

The engineering was successful and here Buzz is bandsawing the new stringers.

Motormans Seat

Work continues 'beneath the radar' on many projects and here John McKelvey has just finished reupholstering a new motorman's seat cushion.  The restored frame is beside him on the table.  I believe this is destined for Shaker Heights Rapid Transit 63, a relatively recent PCC car arrival.

CTS 4223

Dave Rogan and Rich Witt are at the table saw creating new white oak parts for a fuse box to be mounted on the roof of this PCC car.

CA and E 36

Whenever there are a few spare minutes, Al Reinschmidt turns to the task of restoring a door for CA&E 36.  From the progress made, he has spent significant 'spare minutes' on the work.