Passenger Car Collection at Illinois Railway Museum

Archive for May, 2008

Wekend Update Memorial Day 2008

Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in News, Streamliners | Comments Off

a good show by the museum! Ultimately on Monday there were two mainline electrics, one streetcar, and one interurban running from 50th Av. All this plus the mainline coach and cabeese train. YAY! i took a set of photos for our ...

Weekend update May 18 2008

Monday, May 19th, 2008 Posted in News, Restoration, Streamliners, Volunteers | Comments Off

another weekend of steady progress. All diaphragm joints in streamliner sleeper train have been closed up so when we get AC we should be able to control the space fairly well. RDC paint removal continues, and we hope to have the interior ...

CNW 7700 photo update

Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in CNW 7700, News, Restoration | Comments Off

added a few new pics of the door building in the wood shop winter 2007-08. not big news, just a further sharing of the work put into the doors by the passenger team Shelly, Wayne, Mike, Ray, Marc with lots ...

Weekend Update May 10. 2008

Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Dover Strait, News, Restoration, Streamliners | Comments Off

Happy Mothers Day to all Saturday was a decent weather day, made a good amount of progress getting the streamliner cars powered up and lit for visitors. Sunday not so good..... Chilly rainy until early afternoon, then an area wide power failure for ...

Weekend Update May 4 2008

Monday, May 5th, 2008 Posted in News, Streamliners | Comments Off

YAAY!!! We are moved to our new home in Yard 5 Knowing that we needed to vacate so Dave could get the barn started, the switch crew came out about 4 pm and said to prepare to move.  and move we did http://www.irm.org/gallery/Streamliner-cars-move-to-Yard-5-May-2008 Yard ...