Hicks Car Works

Building new third-rail beams to equip all of our CA&E cars is one of our current Car Dept. projects, as long-time readers know by now. ...

 I wasn't out today, but via the grapevine here's the next big CA&E restoration project: the 451! Photo by Greg Kepka The car wa...

...at least that's what my father used to facetiously call the incessant switch moves that are necessary at a place as big, and as activ...

Gregg Wolfersheim sends us another update on the Green Bay car (GB&W 109, built as KGB&W 64).  This is much better than letting me ...

On Monday I started working on a train door for the 460, which has come apart in service, as you can see here.  There's a metal plate on...

Frank writes... It was a busy day in the car shop on Sunday, and it seemed like a lot got accomplished. My first task after arriving was to ...

Joel has assembled his mileage report for 2025, listing out all the revenue mileage run by equipment in the Electric Car Department. 2,189 -...

We'll start with some interesting property news -- repurposing the south half of the office building. For many years it's been used ...