IRM on TV

On Thursday morning our Museum was visited by a crew from Fox-32 news, and everybody had a good time.  Of course, they focused on Transport Extravaganza which will be this Sunday, and that's always a good way to get more people interested in IRM who might not otherwise know about it.

And here's a link for part of what was on TV.

Joel and I were running the 309, and Gregg is seen here as motorman on the 1374.

A handful of antique autos are already on the property, but the vast majority of them will show up on Sunday.  You won't want to miss it!

And by the way, we could still use at least one trainman on the CA&E cars to help out.

After that was over, I had a chance to check out things in Barn 4.  Tim, of course, was working on the 1268; the platforms are being rebuilt.

The platform floor is cleverly designed to slope outwards and down.

And at the other end, you can see there's more to be done.  Watch your step, please!

The 306 project is making tremendous progress, and here's the current status.  The walls for the lavatory have been made and are being put in place.

The floor has been painted, and they say they will start putting the seat frames in place tomorrow!

So this is really exciting.  

And finally, a few more pictures of the progress on the GB&W 109.   Gregg and two of the new guys are working on it.

As I said to Gregg, all it needs now is trolley poles on the roof and it will be ready for service!

Finally, as I've mentioned before, we still get occasional spam comments which we have to deal with.  Some are more amusing than others.  One this morning started out with:

Searching for a car wash centre in Zirakpur?

If so, you've come to the wrong place!!!