Hicks Car Works

As usual, our friend Chuck Amstein has sent along some great views of the action on Saturday. We'll start with the stills, then list ...

There was an extraordinary amount of variety in the operating equipment at IRM today. Among other things, we had something borrowed (the Le...

Now for something only slightly different: In the morning I was asked to help Rod with a switch move. Our main task was to get a dump car ...

Frank writes... Back in mid-April I was out at the museum working on air leaks on the CA&E cars and noticed that something unusual w...

It's not often that fixing a problem turns out to be easier than expected, but once in a great while it happens, especially if like us ...

The wood cars are next scheduled to run on June 9 and 10, in conjunction with the Leviathan again and RPO Days, so that should be interesti...

We haven't had any new restaurant reviews for a while, so last week Frank and I visited Cafe 20 on the east side of Marengo, about four ...

It wasn't really planned this way, but attention was paid to all four of the CA&E wood cars today. At least those in the barn. Firs...

Frank chose to spend his birthday running the 309 and 319, and here he is with his conductor, Joel Ahrendt . A good time was had by all!...