Hicks Car Works

The Museum has just acquired a train of three Burlington stainless steel bilevel cars, two of which were built in 1950 as part of the very f...

 

A Remarkable Transformation by Art Peterson All photos from the Krambles-Peterson Archive In 1903, Barney & Smith (B&S) delivered a ...

Monday's news is mostly Michigan, as in Michigan Electric 28, one of the Museum's really long-term restorations.  A lot of work in t...

Frank writes… Sunday saw the completion of our quick in-house compressor fix-up project on car 18’s National BB2 air compressor. Thanks to R...

This car card, which was incongruously installed in Shaker Heights 18 when the car arrived, probably dates to the early- or mid-1980s. The C...

Thursday was another productive day in the car shop.  We're making good progress on the 306.   I even got a chance to help install the p...

We noticed that this picture was hanging in Nick's office, and it's a good likeness of young Carl, among others.  The date is approx...

We'd like to extend a huge THANK YOU to our good friend Paul Krot, who has arranged with a specialty tire shop out in Oregon to replace...

 It is a great shock to learn of the death over the weekend of B&G Assistant  Carl Illwitzer.   He was 66. Good pictures of Carl are har...

 Another busy Monday, with various projects going on.  This, as usual, is just a sample. Pete was refinishing molding strips for the ceiling...

Frank writes... The rest of the department was out on the railroad working on the overhead on Sunday, but for me it was a return to the ...