Hicks Car Works

Our old buddy and well-known band leader Ron Smolen sent me these pictures of a real CSL artifact: a dance card from a ball given by the Wo...

Madonna and Child with St. Louis of Toulouse, St. John the Evangelist, and Donors  Davide Ghirlandaio, Italian 1486 On a marble pavilion tha...

And you're never too old for toy trains...  I hope.  This year it's American Flyer Wide Gauge.  Almost everything here is between 90...

Monday was another busy and productive day in the car shop.  It was also the last day of Happy Holiday Railway, added to the calendar due to...

Another report on progress in the shop itself from Buzz! I was surprised with a call that the lift screws we asked Eric to make were complet...

Frank writes... Sunday was the penultimate day of Happy Holiday Railway 2025, and although this year's event was impacted by both snow a...

The late Frank Sirinek was a long-time member of IRM whom most of us will remember vividly.  Besides all of the tremendous restoration work...

We realize there has been some online chatter regarding CA&E car 321. We can't say anything at this time other than that we have bee...

Green Bay & Western 109 is, remarkably enough, still in the Electric Car Shop for restoration, and our intrepid cub reporter Gregg Wolfe...

Working in our nice heated car shop goes along on weekdays smoothly without too much trouble from the weather, as long as you can actually d...

Frank writes… The good news was that, for the first weekend in 2025, Happy Holiday Railway wasn’t impacted by snow. The bad news was that th...

  Buzz reports: Our Yates B-244 planer, a newer wood shop machine from 1960, has worn out lift screws and nuts. With no spares around, Eric...