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Thursday, June 6. 2013CGW X38 Update - June 5, 2013As mentioned in the first entry for Wednesday, it rained off and on all day and that chased us inside the shop and allowed us to continue more work inside the plow body. This has been a long stretch of inclement weather on our regular workdays, so not as much progress on the exterior painting has been accomplished. But the last of the old open grid steel roofwalks have been torched off and we got a lot done inside the car body.  Cupola Roof Despite dodging raindrops, Jim Leonard was up on the roof, and down, and back up, and down, but managed to move forward on the roof of the cab cupola.  Priming Thanks to Al Rheinschmidt (and all of the rest of the crews) for their work today. Al primed many boards to be installed inside the CGW snowplow; all those shown here and ANOTHER batch.  New Sills Buzz Morisette started making up two new window sills for the cupola, here jointing the boards. There were quite a few following steps and they were ready to fit, then prime painted at the end of the day.  Floor Repair Dave Rogan and Jim Leonard are inserting the last of the three piece floor repairs at the end of the day. The nice white walls are the new interior lining we have been installing during our rainy weather work. We added door trim, more siding inside, and floor stripping and cleaning and repairs today. So much of that work will seem all but invisible to the walk by visitor, but it is no less necessary and moves the project ahead. Thursday, June 6. 2013Wood Shop Update - June 5, 2013We will have a lot of news and pics to report in this entry and the one following. Part of that was the on and off rain all day driving projects inside to the shop areas, and freeing me up somewhat to grab some pics.  Panels Above Windows Lorne Tweed and Eric Lorenz started the day by installing the panels above the passenger windows on the left side of the car interior on Cleveland Transit System 4223. Weeks of prep work have been involved and all of sudden they almost flew into place. Even that may be a simplification since there are adjustments to be made and many holes to be drilled and tapped, screws to be driven.  Window Tracks Dick Cubbage was on hand and he promptly went to work cleaning more window tracks for the 4223, so that the left side windows may go in.  PM Progress By the afternoon Lorne and Eric had many of the earlier panels in pic one set and anchored and then they moved to a sort of fabricated zee section rail which mounts above the standee windows. This view from the front of the car shows almost all of those in place! Compare the pics in this entry. I have been told these blog entries are the greatest collection of backside photos for Lorne and Eric, but it is their own fault for always working when I come by.  Grid Boxes For many months the crew working on Charles City Western 300 have been rebuilding the seven grid boxes. I bet it seemed like it would ever end to them, and so also to many of us watching on the sidelines. Here you see them all in place mounted on the running board along one side of the engine hood. John Faulhaber helped Pete Galayda and John Nelligan who are proudly smiling at this accomplishment.  Jointing Rich Witt plows along almost unaided in his work to construct replica First Aid Boxes for our fleet of Chicago Aurora & Elgin cars. The stock was jointed and planed today.  Steel Major progress was seen on the northwest platform knee on Chicago Rapid Transit 1024 rapid transit car. After much fussing, engineering, and fitting the revised new support steel has been welded in place.  The Torpedo Gerry Dettloff and John Faulhaber are working to fabricate what looks like an undersea torpedo. At least that is what we thought after considering John's years of service in the Navy. It is actually a chamber to immerse new tack molding for the end of the car in a soaking solution to make it possible to bend it around the car end.  Sanding It will take some time for the results of the soaking to bear results but Gerry is up on the scaffold and sanding the roof, both the new wood repairs and smoothing and sculpting the boards that are to remain. |
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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 [...]
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What happened to the Department Blog? It's been over 2 years and I still regularly check for updates, but nothing comes...
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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
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]