Today was a holiday for me, at least. My wife and I went to the Labor Day parade, walked around the new Pingree Grove forest preserve, and had lunch. Then we turned up at IRM.
The blue cars were in operation, with Dan Buck (L) the motorman and Chris Buck (R) the conductor. We noticed that there's another seat in the 308 that needs to be fixed and a window shade to be adjusted, but really everything seemed to be going quite well. There was a good crowd out, and the Zephyr and the bilevels were running. And the West End Jazz Band was playing, what more could you want?
The blue cars were in operation, with Dan Buck (L) the motorman and Chris Buck (R) the conductor. We noticed that there's another seat in the 308 that needs to be fixed and a window shade to be adjusted, but really everything seemed to be going quite well. There was a good crowd out, and the Zephyr and the bilevels were running. And the West End Jazz Band was playing, what more could you want?
It wasn't a holiday for everybody, though. Frank was hard at work on the 205 over by Barn 4. Here we see that he sanded down the entire side of the car in preparation for painting with primer. Shortly after this picture was taken, the poles were installed with the help of Joe Stupar and others (see above.)
Finally, our latest acquisition has arrived on the interchange track. Santa Fe Diesel #543 was sitting on its 16-wheel flatcar, with a Winton prime mover as a bonus. It's a Fairbanks-Morse H12-44TS, whatever that means, but it is very historic: it used to switch Dearborn Station. It's also as close as we'll ever come to having an FM Train Master.
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