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Friday, January 21. 2022Milwaukee Road 649 Roof ProjectThis has been the fall 2021 project, painting and protecting the roof on the Milwaukee 649. There is a lot of labor that comprises a project like this and it is almost completely painted. The eight or nine volunteers, including three from the diesel department, made it happen. My Thanks to all of you for your hard work!  The Pawnee and Milw 649 switch out of the barn. We switched the car out of barn 10 and then positioned it in the exterior scaffold to begin the work.  Tom started the roof work by needle chipping this portion.  October shows areas primed.  It is a long 85 foot car.  Gray paint applied.  Steve and Doug.  Eddie working on the end area.  More area top coated.  Ed is working on the next area.  October 20 finds Paul working on the eastern end.  Ed working on the western end.  Dale wheeling and Tom operating the chipper. The needle chipper makes the job go quicker especially in this colder weather.  Mr. Tom and his chipper He does a nice job.  Lee from the diesel department and Dave assisted us for the day.  Its either primed and or top coated on one course.  Another view.  Now its painted. Tim Allison comes out on Tuesdays so he has picked up the pace.  Tim is working on the Air conditioning hatch. There are two removable roof hatches, one on each end. It takes a lot of time, about two weeks each, just to remove the old paint and prep them for primer.  Here is one hatch primed. We apply two coats of primer.  More old paint comes off.  The final top coat.  Western end gets more attention.  Thanks to the switch crew we moved the coach inside to continue the process.  Eddie working away before it gets real cold. The coach department would like to store this car inside the new barn 15 being proposed. Please consider a donation to the Coach Department Indoor Storage fund. Thanks, Roger. Friday, January 14. 2022Diesel Locomotive Indoor Storage funding updateHere is a follow up to our post from a couple weeks ago about our push for funding indoor track space. Two historic Armco diesel locomotives have been fully funded to be stored indoors, they are the Armco Steel B-71 and Armco Steel E-110. The B-71 is a Baldwin-Westinghouse build in 1930. The E-110 is a Lima-Hamilton LS-1200 built in 1951. The estimated cost to store these two indoors is just over $21,000. They have been marked to be the next two Diesel Locomotives to be store inside once the additional barn space is built and ready.
The reason we say estimated is the actual cost of the building is still being worked out and that could be a small percentage above or below our estimated costs. We continue to ask for your support to fund indoor storage for Diesel Locomotives, and remember, your donation will be matched dollar for dollar up to a total of $50,000. If we can achieve this goal, that is $100,000 to help preserve our Diesel collection indoors. We are hopeful to be able to also fund the BN Executive units, some CNW units, as well as some other historic Diesel Locomotives. Donations can be made by check to the Illinois Railway Museum, or online at the following link: https://www.irm.org/donations/indoor-storage/Please make sure the option is selected for Diesel Department if donating online, or if by check, make sure "Diesel Indoor Storage Fund" is written on the memo line of your check. Thank you again for your support! Wednesday, January 12. 2022Rock Island 2524 update
A group of nine coach department volunteers have been working on the restoration of our last Rock coach 2524. It has been a gradual process, but it has gathered some momentum in the last seven months.
 Doug starts the project. Here is Doug in late June of last year and one of our 15 member volunteer staff starting the needle chipping project on the south side of the RI coach.  The next day. Before the days work is finished Doug spray primes the area.  Doug, June 22rd. Now Wednesday one of our younger volunteers Austin is showing off his chipping ability.  Austin, June 23rd. Now Wednesday, Austin, one of our younger volunteers is showing off his chipping ability.  Howard spraying. July 1, Howard, our resident spray painter, applies a coat of grey primer where we have prepped.  Doug, John and son John Jr. The team working on the north side.  Doug removing more paint. Doug removing more paint on the letter board.  Eddie chipping. Eddie comes out on Tues and Thursdays Here he is chipping in the vestibule.  Primer applied. October 18, Howard has primed the entire side.  The crew. Lee, Dale, John K, John M and Tom, just part of the crew that has worked so hard on the RI 2524 restoration.  Steve Michelotte one of our volunteer welders working on the car body. Steve is cutting out potions of the car body that are rusted. We plan on welding new patches before we finally repaint the car body.  A repair patch needed here.  Old potions removed and now waiting to weld new patches. We had to move the coach outside in late November to make room for the Mt Harvard's continuing restoration. I would like to provide this coach with inside storage in the new proposed barn number 15. Please send your donations to the Indoor Storage, Passenger Car Department fund. Thanks, Roger. |
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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 [...]