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Sunday, November 25. 2012Steam Department Update 11-24-2012This Saturday saw continued progress in the Steam shop toward re-tubing 1630. The penultimate bale of 37 tubes was swaged and annealed while the final bale was brought into the swaging area ready for processing. The work done last Saturday on cleaning the rough edges from the dies of the swager seems to have worked well. No further problems were encountered with rough surfaces on the swaged tube ends. Good progress was made with cutting and loading so that, by end of day, we had 96 tubes loaded into the boiler. This time Collin and Jason had the "hidden" role of fitting ferrules into the fire box tube sheet. Here Collin is hard at work fitting ferrules and adjusting the position of the tube to the correct projection beyond the tube sheet.
Overall progress today was very good.
The boiler is now starting to look distinctly full of tubes.
However, we have now decided that it would be safer to fit ferrules to some or all of the front tube sheet holes in order to reduce the risk of leakage. This will require some measurement and testing and may require us to reload some of the tubes. So that will be the main activity next week. Meanwhile Mike, Bob and Tom worked on the final shaping of the firebox patch. Ed and Matt continued with fitting the new pipe work along the boiler. In other areas, Ralph worked on the axle boxes for 428 and prepared the surface of another box for babbit facing using the Bullard lathe. Nigel Sunday, November 25. 2012Wood Shop Update - November 24, 2012I will group all this under the wood shop banner this time, although of course activity encompassed many different projects. We will start with work related to our Chicago Great Western X 38 snowplow.  Headlight This is the headlight donated by one of our members and it is now completely restored and painted. Looks good, doesn't it? Now if we had a few weeks of warm weather, it could be installed on the plow.  Mortising Victor Humphreys is standing at the mortising machine as we plunge 3/8 inch wide slots into the stile of the new windows we are making. Not done with all of them yet, more work for the Wednesday crew. These parts are also for the X 38.  Planing Victor and Buzz Morisette are working at our planer to size new lumber for the work Buzz is doing to repair the roof structure in our Private Car ELY. This is an 1889 Pullman product with a long history on the railroads AND at IRM.  Next Steps With the wood properly sized, Buzz moved on to shape new roof ribs (carlines) and here is making a brace to hold them in place during installation.  The Scheme of Things Eric Lorenz was studying newly arrived electrical schematics to work out details of the Shaker Heights 63 PCC car. That car was built as a single car by St Louis Car Co for Minneapolis but when it went to Ohio, they converted it to be able to run in multiple unit with their other PCC's. They made it work, now we have to figure out how, and probably take it back as a single car without the MU feature. We have no other MU cars to run with it, and it becomes more complex and harder to maintain. Many other volunteers were busy, including a crew decorating CTA 6000 cars for the upcoming Holiday Train, and a switch move to bring Chicago Rapid Transit 1024 to the west end of Barn 4, Track 42, for restoration work. That car was built by Pullman in 1898 as car 24 for the Northwestern Elevated and came to IRM in 1958. Saturday, November 24. 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
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 [...]