Today the final two cars in this series were unloaded: CA&E 460 from the Trolleyville collection, and South Shore line car 1100, which had been stored in Michigan City.
Here is the 1100 sitting on its dollies as it arrived this morning.
And here is the 460 right behind it. As before, we had a large group of people on hand to help. I really didn't have much to do other than take pictures. So I did some odd jobs part of the time.
And these are our two forklift operators: our own Nick Kallas (L), and Richard from White Bros.
In other news, the heating/AC unit for the new shop extension arrived and was put on its pad. Here we see Dave Diamond running the Bobcat, as the two contractors watch.
The 1100 half way through the unloading process.
After it's on both trucks, the Com Ed 4 pulls it away and moves it into Barn 8.
Interior views of the 1100. Notice the writing over the motorman's position. There was no easy way to turn equipment around on the South Shore, so east and west were permanent directions!
This is really a nice setup.
The ladder up to the platform.
Then it was time for the 460.
Finally the 431 is coupled onto the 460 for the first time, and moves it over to Yard 8 for temporary storage. Julie Johnson was the motorman.
All four CA&E steel cars on display.
11 comments:
What a wonderful site. To see the 460 and the Pullman at home again. Congratulations to all that have worked so hard to bring them back.
is the 1100 operable?
Will the 1100's wire spool car be coming to IRM also?
Congratulatons on getting all the big stuff moved. BTW, do you have the Minneapolis PCC yet? Also, when will the "mystery" car arrive.
Art Schwartz
Thanks for the comments. We had lots of help, including from other departments. IRM really came together on this project.
C: The 1100 should be operable after some work. It will be restored as an operating line car. I don't know about the spool car.
Art: The Twin City car arrived back in November and is now sitting under a tarp by Barn 6. As for the "mystery car," I don't know. I'm mystified too.
Maybe the mystery car will run once you pick out all the coffee beans:)
It seems to me that the 1100 will need to be restored in a modified form, with trolley poles at each end instead of pantograph, and thus a shorter line platform to accommodate one of the trolley poles. Would it go around the carline?
The 1100 will never be able to go around the car line. It is a 61 foot car, and the trucks are set up more like a standard SSL car. It will also likely have a pantograph re-installed on it, although hopefully we can backdate it to a full pantograph instead of a halfograph. We can run it down most of our mainline with a pan, and perhaps use it to make the rest of our line pan friendly.
It wil be a blessing and about time the railroad becomes completely pan friendly...when I was active at the funny farm in the late 90's and the ICMU's woke from their slumber I thought surely it would be a short time before this happened....Randy and friends...with a young family I can only watch at a distance but as a young kid photographing 1100 towed by a diesel I always wished I'd see the day 1100 would work the museum line
Sorry, Mr. Hicks, for commenting on a two-year-old post!
Being a fan of work cars, I really like the CSS&SB #1100.
Quick question: In the photo gallery for the 1100, I notice forklift activity going on. Just curious -- were they removing the roof apparatus, or putting in back on?
http://www.irm.org/gallery/SouthShore1100?page=1
Thank you, and I was glad to see a donations link for this car's fund on the donations page.
All of the roof equipment was being put back on; it had to be removed for shipment (or was already off).
The 1100 is still slated for restoration, whenever the time and money become available. So thanks.
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