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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 ...

April 20 2008 update

Sunday, April 20th, 2008 Posted in CNW 7700, Dover Strait, News, Restoration, Streamliners | Comments Off

well well it has finally happened a decision on the move of the streamliner cars......we will be moving to the north track of Yard 5 The turbine is already moved, and the Used book store is already back in position. Now we ...

weekend update april 12 2008

Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in News, Streamliners | Comments Off

another week of behind the scenes. Not wquite the weather we had last week either, gloomy, chilly, a bit of wet stuff...... It would appear that the decision has reached a consensus to move the streamliner set to the north track of ...

Weekend Update April 6 2008

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in CNW 7700, News, Restoration, Streamliners | Comments Off

hi again, no we didnt forget, just a bit worn out. Not a lot of new stuff to report this week, but progress made. CNW7700 doors are moving, Mike hopes to install one the weekend of Apr 12, the second is in paint ...

The streamliner set is moving!

Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in News, Streamliners | Comments Off

Still not sure where, but with the barn beginning we need to move There have been several discussions both informal and formal at board meetings, but no final decision yet. Stay tuned we will post when we know more a2a_linkname="The streamliner set is ...