Illinois Railway Museum Blog

Entries from Thursday, April 24. 2014

Thursday, April 24. 2014

Meanwhile...RI 2612 gets more focus Posted by Roger Kramer in Rock Island 2612 at 16:42

Comments (0)

Meanwhile...RI 2612 gets more focus

After coming back from a vacation to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, I was amazed by the progress brought about by Gary Sherman. Thanks Gary!

Wednesday, April 16th, found the two of us back at it. About 11:30 am Brian Lakemper arrived and decided to help us. What a nice surprise! After some introductions we put him to work disassembling some seat frames and helping Gary install screws into one of the newly installed wall panels.

Gary installed yet another panel. That makes three on the South side

Gary and Brian began drilling holes for the installation of more seat frames.

The young fellow in the yellow shirt is Brian Lakemper from Peoria.

We moved a few seat cushions around and tried out the newly repainted seat frames.

Gary and I smiling at our hard efforts

Here they are installing more screws into the panel that the nickel seat is attached. There is a lot of repetitive work in this coach so bare with the different scenes.

Its all about seat frames. In this case nickel seats

After lunch our long awaited delivery of parts showed up. Here are the two new stairs contracted and built by R and B metal of Woodstock, Il Thanks John, Ken, and Joe of R and B. Also delivered were end pieces made to replace the rusted ones. Please see the picture below. Your donation to the RI 2612 fund helps pay for the manufacture of these replacement parts.

Plastic wrapped arrival of our metal parts

Here I am showing what the new stairs look like.

They really did a beautiful job! You have to see them in person to appreciate them. Makes you wonder what these cars really looked and smelled like when they were brand new!! O' to go back in time.... O well....

A before and after of one of the end pieces that were made

Remember.... your donations to this project does make a difference! RI 2612 does need more Dollars. Thanks Roger

« previous page (Page 1 of 1, totaling 1 entries) next page »
Frontpage

Blog Administration

Open login screen

Category Tree

Calendar

Quicksearch

Comments

James Kolanowski about Milwaukee Road 33C update
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 [...]

AJ about Milwaukee Road 33C update
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...

Ted Miles about Progress update of the Multi Purpose Building
Mon, 12-27-2021 16:28
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, [...]

J Blustein about The Old Bag and the Silver Beaver
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.

Jason E about Progress update of the Multi Purpose Building
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 [...]

Thomas about It Happened One Saturday at IRM
Wed, 06-02-2021 17:27
Nice to see 428's cab back on. Looking forward to when it is operable!

Ted Miles about It Happened One Saturday at IRM
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 [...]

bob miller about Dover Strait Progress Part Three
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?

Ted Miles about John McLoughlin Progress - Part Two
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

Jason Erkenswick about Diesel Shop update 1/29/2021
Wed, 04-14-2021 15:26
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 [...]

Alex Schneider about Dover Strait Progress Part Three
Fri, 04-09-2021 19:56
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 [...]

Matthew Maloy about Dover Strait Progress Part Three
Wed, 03-31-2021 11:37
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 [...]