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Friday, September 6. 2013Welcome Mr.President!
Last Sunday we at the Museum had a visit from President Abraham Lincoln.
 Yes thats me talking to Mr. Lincoln  dressed in Summer attire  He was very eloquent  Four score and seven years ago Friday, September 6. 2013CGW X38 Update - September 2-4, 2013 Inside Painted Victor Humphreys has completed painting the first coat of finish paint on all the new wood lining we have applied, one careful piece at a time. It really looks great. We are planning a plow event for Saturday afternoon of Museum Showcase Weekend. So come on out on the 14th and see what has been done. A really remarkable lot of progress in the last year, thanks to the team members, not so much me. Maybe we can shake a few quarters from your pocket change to help assure we can continue to buy the needed materials. Or, send a check to fund RX38.  Train Line Last week we showed you the train line air pipe going back on the plow after being worked on. That was the good news. The bad news is that it leaked air badly. The culprit seems to be a BARCO ball joint which was designed to allow that pipe to be raised and folded back on the front roof when the unit was plowing. So Victor Humprheys and Paul Cronin tackled the project. First, to wrestle a scaffold into position and then to take the line back down.  Careful - - The idea was to use the scaffold to make it safer to pull on some really large pipe wrenches. But getting down for Paul Cronin meant Dave Diaz needed to act as anchor and counterweight on the other end. Mission accomplished.  In For a Dime The old saying goes "In for a dime, in for a dollar". Paul Cronin is torching off a broken L bracket used to anchor the train line on the front end. With the pipe off again we might as well bite the bullet and make a new bracket.  The Old Grind Where have I seen that caption before? Well, I guess it does not matter. With the old bracket and blobs of weld torched off, Paul grinds the remaining nubbins smooth and will then fabricate a new bracket. Friday, September 6. 2013GN X 1390 Update - September 4, 2013 Get The Torch We are moving ahead with the prep work to have this fine tank car repainted. One of the decisions was to remove the dome running boards to allow a better job to be done. They are of a location that would make it difficult to repaint without getting runs, and a color separation for the orange dome is but an inch away. Almost impossible to mask that off well if they are in the way. John Faulhaber and Gerry Dettloff are at work with the torch.  The Details There are a lot of details to be attended to before traces of the old car and paint are to disappear. Dave Rogan is helping by tracing the built date lettering as we work along to document anything and everything that could be of use.  Lube Stencil Here is another of those details. We previously described much of the lettering on the car as it exists, and here is a LUBE STENCIL on the right end of the center sill. We think this means Texaco Grease 2301 applied by the Great Northern Railway in 1960 at a location shown abbreviated by letter "P". Are you GN fans watching this post? It would be interesting to identify that station name abbreviation.  Truck Sideframes More detective work and some careful scraping revealed this lettering on the top chord of the truck sideframes. Great Northern was surely a class outfit to go to this level of detail. It says "G.N. 1390".  Truck Bolster Earlier we showed you the truck bolster lettering on the "A" end, here is the similar but different lettering on the "B" end truck.  Table Saw I do not think I will create a separate entry for shop work so will tack on a few news items here. Jim Foraker (shown) and Henry Vincent worked on finishing touches to the 'slider' table saw restoration and wired up the motor. It runs, but a few details remain.  The Old Grind The old grind refers to the work, not that sterling individual (Al Reinschmidt) who cleaned the back side of a steel pilot destined for Chicago Aurora & Elgin 36. |
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Mon, 09-08-2025 08:22
Good job on the Burlington Nortern 9976. OK.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:56
No new news that I have heard of thus far.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:53
I'll also be doing another update on it soon. Keep en eye out for that.
Tue, 08-12-2025 12:47
A little work was done to it for Diesel Days this year. You'll see photos floating around for the temporary short term job that was done to make it [...]
Wed, 08-06-2025 13:01
Is steam car CN 15444 going to be coming to museum several times it was to be moved to muesum
Sat, 07-19-2025 18:56
Yeah, sadly it's still there as of 7/19/2025
Thu, 06-12-2025 19:14
Its been 14 years guys, where is the unit? Like really? Did you guys misplace it? Or are repairs taking that long? At this point be might we will have [...]
Wed, 04-09-2025 17:40
Jamie Thanks for the update. She's gonna shine like every thing else you guys do! Smeds
Thu, 03-06-2025 16:28
Yes, there is a wye. Those two have been MU'ed on diesel days a year or two ago.
Wed, 03-05-2025 14:04
7009 number boards look good. Is there a way to turn a locomotive around at IRM? In case you ever had a mind to connect 7009 and 6847?
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...