Hicks Car Works

IRM's Showcase Weekend went very well, from all accounts.  Saturday included lots of daytime operation, the usual barbeque dinner for t...

Here are a couple of pictures of our Showcase Weekend, taken yesterday by Stephen Scalzo , just to whet your appetite.  We'll have more...

On the radio they were promoting an exposition in Freeport of artworks created from salvaged material.  But you don't actually have to ...

It may sound like a joke, but this is actually thought to be a "paper wheel" under our old wooden Soo Line coach 67.  The "p...

Frank writes... My trip out to IRM today was all about solving mysteries.   The first mystery : what is what disc of metal cast into each ...

  Today was mostly spent tacking down nearly all of the center canvas on the 319's roof, as seen here.  It seems to be going well. ...

When installing a canvas roof, you always want to make sure it's stretched as much as humanly possible before nailing it down.  Otherwi...

Frank writes... As some of you know, a side project of mine is maintaining a list of all historic North American electric railway equipmen...

Frank writes... I spent a while Sunday working more on lettering for the 205; this time it was time to create number stencils for the sid...