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Sunday, March 3. 2013Rock Island 2612.....We're workin it
Yes, the latest coach, RI 2612, is begining to look like a coach once more!! Matter-of-fact one of the electric car members visited yesterday and even remarked it sure looks a lot better!!!
 Notice the curtains in the windows  The interior before we touched it. Just to refresh your memory  This is the interior last week  Scaping the peeling white paint  Yes, That WAS RED CARPETING  All the xmas boxes are gone  Looking better  Hey, Paul, is the floor swept?  A final surveying of our progress  The results of one days efforts Sunday, March 3. 2013Steam and their friends
Nigel has been in the UK this last week. Here are a few examples of the events happening in the Steam dept this last Saturday. Often the question is asked "How come it takes so long" Well, I guess its because of the old machinery, I'll show you some pictures. There is a learning curve to these old, steel behemoths from a bygone era! Acquiring the techniques to repair and restore the engines and machinery, is not an easy task. Most if not all the people that you see in these pics, whether from myself or Nigel's pictures are all "new" to the program. The only volunteer that has been w/ the Steam program since the 1970's is the curator, Tom Schneider.
 Tom, this is the lesson for the day  Phil painting... He is one of the youngest members  Jeff and Gerry hanging new air line pipe in new shop addition  cleaning backhead parts  more wirewheeling  Dennis, shop welder, finished welding Bull gear for the wheel lathe  Ralph working on the old planner. An important machine to get in operation. To be used for the 428 driving boxes  Rest Sunday, March 3. 2013Wood Shop Update - March 2, 2013 There is a Pattern to the Work Or in this case, the pattern IS the work. Frank Kehoe shows off a very elaborate piece of woodworking - be sure to look closely at the full screen image to see the hundreds, maybe thousands of small pyramids milled into the surface of this slab. This will be sealed and then sent to a foundry for a cast iron pour. Ultimately the finished castings will provide new threshold plates for Chicago Rapid Transit 1024. Non skid? You bet!  Berlin Sander The work continued on the Berlin Sander, assembling and lowering the deck back onto the mechanism. That was not without DRAMA. Bill Peterson and Dave Diaz did a lot of the 'heavy lifting' and here we are only a few parts away from finishing the re-assembly.  A Working Sander Dave Diaz and Bill Peterson wasted no time after we did some checkout and got the machine running. Here is one of the two new doors made for Chicago Great Western X 38. Both doors went through the machine without incident, although I think some more adjustment and fine tuning could be made on the feed rolls.  The Doors After sanding, both doors had the tails cut off of the stiles. We leave those long to protect the assembly in handling, but now they are squared off to finished length. Then we sized and squared the previously made lower panels. Bill Peterson and Victor Humphreys are calling it a day with the panels in place on the first door.  Interior Tongue and Groove Warren Newhauser showed up early and got a head start on the T&G we made three weeks ago. Here he is cleaning them up to ready them for prime painting. These will be installed in the Milwaukee Road X 5000 dynamometer car.  Priming Warren, new volunteer Brian Patterson, and Buzz Morisette are busy with the paint for the X 5000 boards. Yes, it appears Warren was working hard and shed the green shirt he was wearing earlier. |
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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 [...]