Frank writes...
Sunday was a beautiful day to open the gates to visitors for the first time this year, sunny and with temperatures in the 50s. Unfortunately, I didn't get any photos of CA&E 431, which was the day's service train.
Many thanks to Richard for working with me on removing the remaining three seats from CA&E 453 that will go to the upholstery shop for restoration in this next batch. They're shown above on the trusty Taylor-Dunn after I removed the antimacassars. The 453's antimacassars are different than the other two cars' examples; besides being affixed with a bunch of carpet tacks, they also have much more of a leather grain look to them. They're generally in good shape and can be reused. These seats were moved to the 451 and the antimacassars went back to the 453 for storage.
After the 431 was done with revenue service for the day, it and the 460 were outside briefly for switching. This was the first time the 460 has left the barn since the seats were replaced, so I had to see it for myself! Thanks to Zach for the heads-up.
Zach and Joel also brought the 319 over to the inspection pit. Its inspection isn't scheduled until next weekend, but this allows for some of the items to be knocked off the inspection list during the week as time allows.
While Richard and I were over at Barn 13 working on the 453, we decided to swing over by Yard 15 to see the progress on the "U-store-it" storage building, shown here. The interior walls appear to have gone up since my last photograph. But wait a second, what's that line of things off to the left?
Hey, it's the posts for the south wall of the South Storage Building! This structure, not to be confused with the structure shown earlier, will mostly be used for storage by the Bus and Trolley Bus Departments, I believe. With this, we now have three different buildings all under construction simultaneously: these two storage buildings and Barn 15, the latter in about the same early stage as the South Storage Building.
In other news, a crew was out working more on repairing the overhead at the west end, while others were hard at work in the shop on air gauge repair.
5 comments:
My spring issue with the IRM Roster came in today. The roster is wonderful! 502 cars is a truely amazing number of cars. Many of the Departments own more cars than the whole collections of many museums.
Hello Frank,
Probably not the best spot to type this, but it's the best one that I know of.
The new collections page is showing error 403 messages when trying to look at equipment. Just a heads up. The old collections page seems to still work. But, that one is missing a lot of the information that the new page has.
I've had the same problem. "Access to www.irm.org was denied"
Yes, we are aware of the problem. It seems the latest update to that WordPress plugin had some kind of bug that breaks the links from the index pages. The actual listings are still there - if you manually type in “www.irm.org/player/cae309” it works. The good news is that our web developer, who has been working on this problem the last few days, believes they’ve figured out what broke. As if this morning, they hope to have it fixed tomorrow or Friday. Fingers crossed!
So excited to come here during summer
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