Passenger Car Department

On May 25, 2013 we had 4-5 people working on the Milwaukee Road X-5000 Dynamometer car in various areas.
Chuck Trabert started out by spending time of the roof looking for small water leaks over the kitchen area. He found an old copper roof patch that come loose. We used a combination of a new spray on flexible rubber membrane sealer and his trusty Vulkem caulk.

Warren Newhauser and Larry Kuehn evaluated putting on a new kitchen door latch from the Coach Dept., but it would require removing sheet metal cladding on the door so the decision was made to postpone this project for now.

Larry Kuehn installed two new jelly jar lights on both ends of the car that had been removed before the car arrived at IRM. Total time required: about 2 hours to disassemble the piping and run the new wires. These were donated by a railway supply company. They will add a nice touch to the car at night.






Warren Newhauser installed two new time delay relays on the Waukesha propane Enginator (generator) control panel that control the automatic starting of the unit, making the controls 100% functional, except for one missing relay on the Load control Panel that is not essential. These relays which are becoming scarce, were also recently donated and were off the old KCS business cars. The car is able to generate 32VDC for the lighting and other systems.

Buzz Morissette delivered the roughly 400' of tongue and groove ceiling boards we made this Winter in the Wood Shop with the help of Bob Kutella. Buzz made several wood carlines to which the ceiling boards will be attached. He also made three wooden drip caps for the two side doors and the kitchen end door that were were patterned after those on the MILW ribside caboose 01984. The woodwork was previously stored in the MILW X-5001 caboose. All of this will be used for ceiling repairs where the original boards need to be replaced. The drip cap moldings will prevent water from running in the car when rain hits the doors.

Larry, Chuck and Warren spent much of the day working on replacing a broken pipe underneath the car.



Pauline Trabert was the "official" photographer. Overall it was a very good day with a lot of progress.