Hicks Car Works

Here's another great photograph sent in by Phil Becker , taken June 27, 1957, a week before service ended. Car 460 is westbound at Weis...

How many of us thought we'd never see this sight? Here is Chicago, Aurora & Elgin car number 409, repainted in authentic colors, at ...

IRM has hired a painting contractor to paint four of the CA&E cars from the Trolleyville collection. This is an important step in getti...

Last Friday, Norm Krentel was generous enough to take a day off from work and drive to Cleveland and back (in one day) to pick up some esse...

I was able to stop out at the museum today to look over the new acquisitions and have added some interior pictures to the cars' photo ga...

Today the final two cars in this series were unloaded: CA&E 460 from the Trolleyville collection, and South Shore line car 1100, which h...

CA&E cars 409 and 451 arrived at IRM today and were quickly unloaded. We now have this down to a science. Here are the two cars as they...

Today we finished preparing our three steel CA&E cars for shipment to the Museum. Actual loading and transit should start tomorrow (Mon...

The IRM team got a lot accomplished today. Members included everybody I mentioned last time, plus our old friend Walt Stafa who showed up ...

Having a wonderful time, wish you were here! I just arrived in North Olmsted; we'll meet for supper tonight and start work at Brookpark ...

We received word from Tim O'Donnell this morning that all three of our steel cars, plus the 458, are at Brookpark Shop on the Cleveland...

I've been getting periodic updates on the status of the steel cars at Cleveland. Due to various technical and weather-related difficult...

We got an update from our good friend Tim O'Donnell in Cleveland, whose help has been absolutely invaluable in the process of getting t...

The hopes and dreams of many years finally became reality today as the two CA&E wood cars were unloaded and safely stored in Barn 8. The...