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Sunday, January 10. 2016

A Big Step for Barns 13 and 14 Posted by Roger Kramer in Barn 13 Construction at 16:26

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A Big Step for Barns 13 and 14

The new year has brought a resumption of construction work on barns 13 and 14 . As I drove past the new construction sites for the first time in 2016, I noticed a contractor van parked between barns 13 and 14. Yes, the electrical contractor hired to install the electric service in both barns was busy working in barn 13. I chatted with him briefly and took a few pictures of his progress.

You can barely make it out but wire is already being pulled to power the roll-up doors.

A couple of interesting factoids came out of my conversations with him. He estimates about 3000 feet of 1/2 pipe and 2300 3/4 pipe will be used to "wire up" each barn. That will keep him going for a while!!

Here is the electrical contractor tool cart and the distribution power panel the Max has installed.

Part of the inventory needed to electrify these barns. Please notice the bundles of emt piping leaning against the wall.

I will keep you posted on this latest progress in the next couple of weeks. Please keep sending in your donations for new barn construction! Thanks to everyone who has donated to the cause so far!

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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
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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
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bob miller about Dover Strait Progress Part Three
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Wed, 04-14-2021 15:26
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Alex Schneider about Dover Strait Progress Part Three
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Matthew Maloy about Dover Strait Progress Part Three
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