Hicks Car Works

On Saturday I was running the 714 and 749 for the Bunny Hop event.  Derek White was the conductor and we were the only mainline train.  Basi...

Our indefatigable investigative reporter, Gregg Wolfersheim, is back at it, relaying news about progress on the Green Bay car. I think we ca...

 Time for another quick report on various projects in the car shop. The next third rail beam is nearly complete.  Today I installed the pent...

Regular IRM videographer Steven Jam just posted a pretty neat video: a view of the couplers between the 309 and 319 during a trip on Showcas...

Practice may not always make perfect, but it usually makes things go faster, at least.  Here's a few projects that are making pretty goo...

Frank writes... Sunday was a beautiful day to work on CA&E curve-siders. But then, what day isn't? As it turned out, all three of ou...

IRM's Bunny Trolley Hop is coming up this weekend and next, and there are several operating crew positions that still need to be filled...

Today's first project was to process the wood for the next third-rail beam -- jointing, ripping, and gluing -- and clamping it up for th...