Illinois Railway Museum Blog

                                                                   Much has been accomplished on the 2612 this past long Memorial Day weekend.    I asked for volunteers and a number of people came in Barn 11 to help w/ the project.    On Saturday Mike Steigerwald and myself scraped more old peeling paint off the wall.     Sunday, an even bigger crew came over to help.     Loraine and Dan Bixler began scraping more paint and accomplished quite a bite.    Later Nancy Ring arrived and started vacuuming the old chips and grim from the floor.     Next, she requested three buckets of water to hand wash the floor.    YES, that's right she got on all fours and began washing the floor.   WOW, it really is looking much like the coach of old.                               Mike and I worked together on Saturday                                The following views are of the crew and their activities on Sunday.                                  Dan Bixler also used the heat gun and really went to town peeling large sections of old paint off the wall.   Unfortunately, its a very HOT technique and  the gun got real warm.                                                                                                                                   Good luck to the steam team in there riveting of the patch!!!!!                                   Please,  remember to send a donation to the Barn 14 Building Fund!!!!