Museum site for members and fans.

[Gunns]

Hi Al,
Got a basket of pasterys from Tom's Place, and a "Bullet" of Coffee in the Van.

Wends. July27,05
Sorry about the Hiatus, was vacation time <G>.
Today saw much accomplished, with the Inspection of the valve seat for the emergency fuel shut off valve being the highlight.
http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/abe
The inspection was accomplished with a viedio camera that was lowered in to the valve well and recorded for our records, the valve seat was found to be in undamaged condition and needs no servicing.
Also compleated was much of the prepretory painting for the reassembly of the tender, the exterior of the tender will be painted after reassembly, but all surfaces that will be inaccesable need painting now.
http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/abg
The Foot plate,
http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/abh
The front of the tender where the foot plate is mounted, and a look in to the Oil Bunker well.
http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/abi
The Oil Bunker, note moved crib work and <not visable> installed brackets for the wood dunnage that seperates the bunker from the water tank.
http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/abj
The Tool Boxes that mount under the Tender sides, that will be remounted as the last part of the reassembly.

Also nearing compleation is the wood dunnage, which has recived its first linseed oil coating, and will get a secont coat then will be stacked until the assembly to prevent warpage.
In the Office cataloging and scanning of the Folio drawings continues, with the PDF files of the drawings and Maintence folio being made interactive with our "Parts removed, and location" forms. This allows us to remove a part and tag it <with a metal "Shoe Tag"> and also link it to the drawing and folio pages associated with the repair / restoration of that part.
Also the finshing touches were applied to the Hanger that holds the "Claper" in the bell, the fabrication of the part was made much simpler by the drawings made avalible from the folio. Work on the claper continues, with the determination that mild steel is suitable for the part.

More to come,
Gunns

[trolleyboy]

Hey guy's thanks for the inagural posts, hopefully there will be more comming. barndad we are also embarking in some museum improvements, most notably we are in the midst of finalizing the fund raising and construction of Barn #4 the Sir Adam Beck Centre. We have the new mainline conection laid and the yard switches for the new yard 4 are in. Hopefully the barn itself will begin to build this fall. It's desparatly needed to get the rest of our fleet under cover before the weather makes the outside stored vehicles non-restorable.A sad note is that another rail museum nit far from us may soon be without a home. The Elgin County Museum in St Thomas Ontario is having it's yard atracks torn up. They are in what's left of the old Michigan Central shops. CN still owns the building and trackage and as it's retired the museum soon may be without it's historic home. Thye have a collection of Steam , diesel, and electric Traction equipment that will be hard pressed to find homes for if the worst happens. I will keep everyone posted.her's a couple snaps of elgin count'y's collection. Rob

[Gunns]

Hi all,
more up tomorrow,
site for now......http://www.nmrhs.org/
gunns

[Anonymous]

Hi Rob! Great idea for a thread! [:)]

My museum is the Illinois Railway Museum in Union Illinois. I work with the Steam Team. Our current locomotive restoration project is the UP 428 Consolidation, built in 1900. It supposedly was the last UP locomotive that ran as a scheduled passenger train in 1958. The Steam Team has been working on it for more than 10 years so far.

The UP428

The cab has to be completely rebuilt

We're also in the middle of adding a 51 foot extention to the steam shop, and making major progress on a drop table installation. I'll keep you all updated!

[siberianmo]

Hey Rob! Good luck with your thread! [tup][:D]

As we both know, starting one is no problem - keeping going and on track is the challenge. Not a doubt that you're up to it!

See ya! [swg]

Tom, Proprietor of "Our" Place, an adult eating & drinking establishment!

[trolleyboy]

Hello everyone. Seeing as this is the Classic trains Forum, and all of us here have the love and nostalga of classic trains, I'm putting this topic forward as a place where those of us who are members of museum's and historical societies can "strut" our stuff.This is a lose informal site please post pictures or info on your related museums etc and others with the intrest can ask questions or find out how to help out. Please for members of societies let us know a bit about your orginization, what it does etc. Post the web site for others to look at. Myself as the my web name may suggest I'm a member iof an Electric railway Museum in Canada, run by the Ontario Electrical Railway Historical Society. We've been at it for 50 years now and we restore and run the equipment for the public to enjoy. Have a peak at our web site for more info www.hcry.org Here's an example of some of our groups efforts. These are the final (re)assembly of London (Ontario) Street railway open bench car #23 a 1901 vintage streetcar. Enjoy. Hope to hear from and see others work as well.