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Friday, February 22. 2013Wood Shop Update - February 20, 2013And in the wood shop area, as is our custom, we produced a lot of sawdust and chips. Production is at such a high level, the collection barrel needs to be emptied more than once every day the machines are running.  Painting Victor Humphreys is our 'go to guy' for painting and he does a fine job. Here are the new cupola cab windows for Chicago Great Western X 38 getting the first coat of maroon.  Fitting Dave Rogan does careful work in fine tuning the mortise and tenon joints for the second CGW X 38 door. We make it a practice to completely assemble and dry fit the door before gluing, and on occasion, fine adjustments need to be made.  Worth It And at the end of the day it is worth it. The second door is in the glue press curing as Dave makes a final check. The first door is done to this stage and can be seen in the background.  Trimming John Faulhaber and Rich Witt are trimming a new roof board for the Lake Shore Electric 810. The new boards are being installed from the top down towards the tack molding.  Sanding John is on the belt sander now making the final fit fpr this piece. Nothing ever comes out exactly perfect when working on an eighty year old car body, so the last piece is a custom work of art.  Results Count And here is the car, outside in Barn 4. Three or four rows of roof boards are done, and the new tack molding has been installed. Wednesday morning it was about plus 7 F and these guys were on the scaffold first thing. At least they were out of the wind!  Door Repair Henry Vincent has completed the new pieces for the repair on this door for Chicago Aurora & Elgin 36. He has moved forward and is sanding old paint off, and preparing the mating surfaces for new finish before final assembly.  Speaking in Tongues Well, more properly, speaking OF tongues. A good sized crew worked again throughout the day on new roof boards for Michigan Electric 28. I think the goal is for something in excess of 1200 linear feet to be made. That is not a trivial effort. Here are the first boards off the shaper showing the new tongues.  Crew Paul Cronin is acting as catcher getting the stock as it comes off the shaper, and Buzz Morisette is feeding the machine. Not the only two working this project, others helped, but were not in this image. Jeff Brady and Norm Krentel were outside in the barn, working on the top roof sheathing. Progress was also made with the new Boston & Maine windows - beading, planing, and ripping. Friday, February 22. 2013CTS 4223 Update - February 20, 2013I have a number of images for one project today, Cleveland Transit System 4223, a PCC car. Lorne Tweed took several of these so I will split this weeks news into two BLOG entries  Switch Cabinet Dave Diaz is painting a new switch cabinet for the car. It has been fabricated new, and a lot of prep work has gone into adding the needed attachments and holes for mounting under the front dash of the car.  Left Rear The next few images were taken inside the car, left side rear. We have all the panels and trim for the car, but they have been out of it for many years. It is like trying to do a jigsaw puzzle without benefit of the picture on the box. Wise advice to budding restorationists: Take a lot of pics, mark each piece where it came from with a paper tag, and write the id on each piece. Surely one of those pieces of information will be lost to memory or time.  Wall Panel There are wide wall panels to be mounted below the row of standee windows and above the ordinary passenger windows. Simon Harrison is holding the first one, working from the rear to front on the left side.  Upper Trim Simon Harrison is now fitting a piece of trim above the row of standee windows. Many of these pieces appear to be the same, but have subtle differences, different hole patterns. You really need to lay out and sort out each group of pieces.  Side Windows In the shop the seemingly endless task of preparing the side windows, passenger windows, goes on. For this car there is an upper and lower for each opening. Simon is applying a clear protective finish to the cleaned aluminum frames, in this case one of the lower sash. |
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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 [...]