Illinois Railway Museum Blog

In the Ely, Buzz Morisette has two of the three panels up on the dining room ceiling. He was still doing a bit of work on the center area to make sure the middle panel will lie flat.

Buzz Morisette continues work on the Ely ceiling center

2 out of 3 ceiling panels are up in the Ely dining room

In the Exhibit Cars, Kevin Kriebs painted the floor of the walk way between the two cars a gray which really cleans up the look of the walkway. He also gave the wall by the Arrival/Departure board a new coat of chocolate brown which covers the formerly white conduit.

Walk way between Exhibit Cars painted gray

1st Exhibit Car wall recoated in chocolate brown

At the end of the day, Mark Gellman and Jon Habegger were outside talking. Jon decided to chip away the ice and then it became a bit of a game to see if they could get some of the larger pieces out. Mark is shown spreading out the snow/ice to get it to melt faster.

Mark Gellman shoveling ice

Michael McCraren took a picture of the wall he has been working on for some time. It is now down to the stainless steel and ready for priming. He says that next weekend will be the last weekend of winter work. He'll be taping up the trim and then spraying primer on the wall and the Bedroom F side of the divider door. Then he will clean up the rooms made messy by winter work for public display when the Museum opens. Next fall the process starts again.

Pacific Peak Bedroom F wall