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Saturday, September 2. 2017The Prepping of the IC 3345
The prep work leading up to the final painting seems to be the most important therefore the most labor intensive. As you will see by these next pictures the crew on most work days was at least three or four people. My thanks to all that all volunteering on this project. Here is what happened two weeks ago!
 Here I am sanding some imperfections on the first coat.  Dave Cook sanding on the car body  Curt started masking the windows Good start to a difficult job  In order to have the next coat of paint to adhere we need to scuff the surface. Dan is working on this job!  Not to be out done Loraine, Dans wife, is also scuffing the surface.  Jeff is sanding vestibule platform end of the coach near the roof line.  As you can see we are already masking off the next area to paint. That will be the Brown above and below the windows.  Curt still working on masking the windows. That takes an awfully lot of time but its well worth the extra effort. Its a real job to clean each window once it has been hit by overspray. Saturday, September 2. 2017The Exterior Activity on the John Mcloughlin
It has been a slow progression but this beatifying project on the roof of our heavy weight sleeper, John Mcloughlin is almost complete! Our goal has been to completely remove all the old rust and paint off of the flat part of the roof and prime it. This job has been undertaken by one of our devoted retired members, Robert Olson of Waukegan, Illinois. He has diligently been working on the roof for more than 7 months and has recently completed his goal. If you come out to the museum on most any Wednesday you will find him working away on this project. The other project related to the roof has been the removal, of again, old paint from the hips of the roof. We have had another four volunteers working on this project. These folks are still among the younger working class so it has taken a little longer to complete. Just recently we have completed the priming of all these areas. These four guys are; Mark Hoffman, Matt Holtz, Dale Steichen, and Andy Townsend.
 Bob removing some old paint from the roof.  In this picture Bob is using the DEWALT angle grinder with cup wire wheel to remove any rust from the roof surface.  Mark is dressed for the cold temperatures in April while leaning the roofs hips.  Here Bob is using a putty knife to remove all loose paint. This was taken in April of this year.  Mark took a breather from working on the roof to prepping the vestibule side of our sleeper.  Here is the results of two days of work.  Now he is working on the other side of the vestibule side.  On a another cold day, this time in March, we find Dale scraping more old paint off of the roof.  Thanks to Andy this round end got sanded and primed in one day.  This last photo, taken in June, shows Mark again using the wire wheel grinder on the rounded end of the roof. |
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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.
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Nice to see 428's cab back on. Looking forward to when it is operable!
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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
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