Hicks Car Works

News and views of progress at the Illinois Railway Museum

Sunday, May 22, 2016

RPO Day

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How could we forget to mention that Saturday was RPO Day?  The RPO train was powered by the IT Diesel, a GP-7, and the Burlington RPO was m...
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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Almost Ready for Service

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Today the weather was beautiful; we seem to have gone from winter to summer in one week.  I was able to complete the inspection of the 308,...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

That Hissing Sound

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On Wednesday we started on inspection for the 308, seen here poking its nose out the door.  We ran into some annoying problems.  It's n...
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UP Doodlebug Update

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Some more pictures from Gregg Wolfersheim of his work on the UP Doodlebug M-35.   He writes: Two views of the forward Men's room...
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Monday, May 16, 2016

Milwaukee's... best?

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Frank writes... I was out at IRM for a few hours again Sunday afternoon, but once again I was helping with switching and didn't get an...
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Saturday, May 14, 2016

Be Prepared

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Where do I start?  For one thing, today we had wintry weather, which would be fine in the middle of November, but in the middle of May it...
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