The main accomplishment today was fixing a controller on the 308. We owe Rod a lot of thanks for providing the expertise to fix the problem. Now let's see if I can explain it.The brass part (red arrow) is a collar on the [...]
Closer and closer...
The 205 is drawing near to the point where we can begin painting. Sunday I concentrated on finishing up application of body filler to a few more areas of the car and priming those spots. Included in these were the two [...]
I Remember Perris
I remember Perris, California, and man was it hot!!! What an awful climate! It was almost that bad today in Union. Maybe I'm just getting old, but it was too hot and humid to do much heavy lifting.So I rode the wood cars [...]
More CA&E and North Shore Art from Zach Ehlers
We received some more artwork from our friend Zach Ehlers. Zach is spending his summer creating CA&E and North Shore artwork before he heads off to Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology as a freshman this fall. Thanks [...]
Visit to Madison
I happened to be in Madison, Wisc. for the day, so here a couple of views of railroad preservation.The Milwaukee Road station is now a bicycle store. The platform area has been fenced off and is used for bicycle storage. [...]
Memorial Day Weekend
Sorry for the delay, but here are my pictures from last weekend, with the WWII re-enactment and the Memorial Day service.SaturdayCars 319 and 309 operated all day. I was the motorman, Dan and Chris Buck were the conductors.The [...]
Movie Time in the 460
Our friend Steve Heister from the Northern Ohio Railway Museum forwarded me an interesting YouTube link about one of our recently-acquired Trolleyville cars. It seems that some years ago, CA&E 460 was used as the filming location for some bumper [...]