The title line sounds like something you might hear in your favorite carry out deli. But no, we are making the call for any of our volunteer project workers who can see a need for upcoming wood shop work. Every year at this time we try to look ahead to the coming winter season when a lot of our time is spent indoors in the woodshop.
GET IN LINE NOW if you are plannig a need for shop time, either on your own, or to have our regular staff do the work for you.
The shop area is open to all regular volunteers at IRM, based on your ability to work safely. Any wood work project has a few requirements. The project bears the cost and effort of acquiring the appropriate hardwood or softwood raw materials, and other consumable supplies for the project. Simple requests are processed as fast as we can get to them and any IRM equipment or B&G project is eligible. Larger or more complicated work MAY be assessed a fee for shop time, this to help maintain the tooling and shop in prime usable condition. It is very minimal and perhaps is about 20% of what a project might pay on the open market. Last winter season saw car siding made, four large doors, and probably over 100 windows, along with many, many additional wood items, including seat parts, tack molding - the list is endless,
HURRY! HURRY! HURRY!
Contact me with your e mail address if you want to get in at the top of the waiting line for this once in a lifetime offer.
Comments
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...