Tuesday Progress

Another busy Tuesday at the Museum, and the car shop in particular, results in the following updates.  Let's see, today we'll take them in numerical order.

First is the Michigan Electric 28.  Norm Krentel and Rich Castagna were continuing their work on the front of the car.  Here's the floor of the baggage compartment:

And the front panels:

Here Rich is drilling holes for bolting the parts together.

Helped by Norm:

Next is the Indiana Railroad 65.  Jon Fenlaciki continues working on the roof.  Below is the hole where the conduit for the 600V supply passes into the car.

Next, John Sheldon and Gerry Dettloff continue on the Fox River 306.  There's plenty of welding and grinding to do.

And John continues to make progress with the floor:

Before and after...  The "new" piece was made about 30 years ago, and John located it and started to install it.  It helps brace the floor at the end of the car.

Finally, interior painting on the CA&E 319.  As you have read, the 451 has some serious mechanical problems to address, so I took some time to start repainting the interior of the 319.  It's hard to tell from these pictures, but when the car is outside in operation, flaws in the paint scheme show up that aren't obvious when it's inside the barn.  So there's more painting to be done as time permits.

This door, for instance, looks much better than it did before.

That's it for today, but don't go away.  When IRM news breaks out, you'll read about it here first!