Saturday, September 30. 2017
Here is our finished recreation of IC 3345! We have yet to apply the lettering but that will be accomplished as soon as time permits. I hope you think our efforts are well worth it! We do. As I have previously mentioned we hope to repaint another passenger car next year. As for now our painting volunteers are going to take a winter vacation and start the next paining project in Spring of 2018. This does not mean we are stopping our progress. On the contrary, we will just focus on other projects. Please watch for the future announcements. In the mean time please send any suggestions that you have to this blog address.I cant thank these people enough for all their efforts in making this paint job happen!Yet to be completed is the painting of the vestibules. Yes, our next big job is the stencil lettering and numbers. Estimated cost is $437.00. We have placed an order for them and should be arriving in the next two weeks. I would like to thank all of you who have sent in donations for the IC 3345. It shows our hard working volunteers that our efforts are indeed appreciated and that, you, indeed like what we are doing in the coach department. We will, very sincerely, try to excede your expectations by improving the appearance of our passenger car collection. Please consider sending donations to your favorite piece. It does make a difference. Thank you Roger
Sunday, September 24. 2017
We have been very busy this early fall. All the volunteers that work in barn 10 have been recruited into the fall the painting crew. As you now know various painting projects have taken priority this year. We are trying to get all these projects completed before winter starts. By now you have seen my blog progress on the IC 3345. That is not the only department car being reworked.
We have also been slowly restoring and repainting the roof of the, John Mcloughlin, our 8-1-2 Pullman sleeper. The painting of black is the culmination of our hard efforts. Please take a look! It might not look like much but some of our volunteers have spent over 8 months working for this moment. In addition, Howard Gierer and crew have repainted five roofs on our Rock Island fleet.
. Please consider sending in a donation the help support more restoration improvements on this heavy weight sleeper. The John Mcloughlin project needs your support.
Thanks Roger
Sunday, September 17. 2017
This last Tues and Wed saw the final step in the painting process on the IC 3345. Howard, with my assist, applied the yellow yellow stripe to this side of the 3345. We had a very small but productive crew, Tuesday. It seems like a few of the steam department volunteers have also been enjoying helping the coach department. This was the case Tuesday when Matt Gustafson decided to help us. He is a very energetic young man who jumped right in and began sanding the other side of the coach in preparation for the final coat of brown. Thanks for all your help, Matt. Hope to see this coming Tuesday. I can not overemphasis the amount of time/work that goes into just masking off this entire 85 foot coach. Painting is the easy part compared to the time spent setting the lines for the yellow stripe. For a clean straight edge we used 3M blue tape purchased from our local Sherwin Williams paint dealer in Huntley.
If you would like to see more passenger cars painted in the future we would like to suggest a donation to the coach dept fund or to the individual pieces listed here. Up for consideration for future painting projects are the following pieces. Although not in any order of importance are the following projects. Milwaukee Road X5000, Pennsylvania Cascade Knoll, CB&Q 481, CB&Q 1923, John Mcloughlin and Mount Harvard.
Thanks Roger Kramer
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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...
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, [...]
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.
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 [...]
Wed, 06-02-2021 17:27
Nice to see 428's cab back on. Looking forward to when it is operable!
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 [...]
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?
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]