Illinois Railway Museum Blog

Here are more developments on the restoration of the Mt. Harvard!  Our small band of volunteers continues to remove old paint in preparation of more painting. Every week brings on line new painting projects and new results. The project has received much help from many people including these two volunteers Dave Cook and Jerry McGonagall.   Future posts concerning the Mt Harvard will show more interior painting progress.   Thanks     Roger

Here the latest news on the Green Bay and Western 109.   Jack Biesterfeld  has been very committed working on the old wooden coach.     Along with Bob Olsen they  have been slowly bringing back the luster of this coach.   Right how they have begun sanding and painting the ceiling.  There are many worthy projects for donations and this one is one of them.   Yet to consider is the exterior restoration and purchase of the correct seat frames and cushions.   We might have to consider manufacturing them.   We have seats from an old Lackawanna electric trailer but they are by no means correct.  Estimate costs for new frames are $17,000 to $22,000.  Please consider adding this coach to your donation list.                                         Thanks       Roger