Shop Tour 15: Illinois Railway Museum Steam Locomotive Restoration Shop
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- Shop Tour 15: Illinois Railway Museum Steam Locomotive Restoration Shop
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I am always awestruck by how complicated steam locomotives are. Not in the basic theory of operation (water, fire, steam, pressure) but is carried out throughout all of the different systems of pipes, valves, levers that run the length of these massive machines. Then there are the many hours needed to light the fire and build steam, and oil everything that needs oiling. Simply amazing.
Keith, I grew up in an old schoolhouse converted to a home in 1964, a few miles from IRM. On the weekends you’d hear the train whistles. Visited the museum often. My favorite memories are attending their August Transportation Extravaganza with my dad who’s since past. He got to ride an electric street car from Chicago where he grew up and remembered riding as a kid. Perhaps you’ve been lucky enough to attend an Extravaganza already but if not, try to make it to one! Thanks for doing the tour, really enjoyed it.
Just amazing! It’s so heartwarming to see the American industrial history preserved for the future generations to see. Thank You Kieth.
I've driven past that place 100's of times and never had the opportunity to stop. Either during the week or prior commitments wouldn't allow the time. Sometime I'll need o get there.
I love Phil's OshKosh hat.
This place is one of my favorite museums I was brought to as a kid. It's great to see behind the scenes.
My wife and I stayed at the KOA ~2 miles away, and spent a full day touring the sheds and tracks. I hope to go back for another visit.
Best wishes from the far North.
Cool shop Tour Mr. Rucker
I volunteer At the Colorado Railroad Museum !
I dig the T-slot floor area. That could be mighty handy.
Great video. You couldn't have gotten a better guy to show you around than Phil Hehn. He's the nicest guy. Keep up the good work.
Ken Koren
Rockville, IN
Keith; I love this Video. The old steam engine's are one of my favorite older things to see. Thank You. 😀
I have Lived in Huntley IL and have been at the Museum many many time with events it is always an exciting place. If you have a chance it’s a well worth stop.
Great video Keith, thank you for posting this!
Very cool!
I have a Pratt & Whitney just like they're lathe. Great lathe!
Wow! I had no idea this place existed, and it's only thee and a half hours away from me! I'll definitely be heading there. I love to get lost in history museums and just soak in it. And I have a special love for railway museums since my dad worked for the Milwaukee Road from several years before and after I was born. And, looking at the museum grounds on Google, it looks like this place is so huge, it could be seen from space!
I particularly like this video, too, because it made clear how both of you have so much history and other knowledge right at your fingertips. So much knowledge is preserved by people like you, and I'm very grateful for that.
If you are 3 1/2 hours away, I recommend doing a full weekend trip then. It's quite the museum, and usually during summer months they have events happening. Plus the museum is quite large as well. During the summer as well they are open on the weekdays but usually only have 1 electric car running. But this place, with the exception of 1 or 2 people are all volunteers, and this year is the 70th anniversary of the museum, and it keeps going strong. Plus on the weekends they have a small restaurant, not the best food but convenient. They have 5 barns full of trains that are open to the public and another 15 that are closed. I could go on and on, but if you want more info I'm here to help. I live about half an hour and have been going there for about 40 years
@@jamesf791 Lucky you, it sounds fantastic, and right up my alley! I talked to my wife about it yesterday, saying I hoped it was in our future. She said she'd be glad to go, but would make sure to bring a book to read, since she knew I'd by way more into it than she was, and she'd find a quiet place to wait for me. I said I might want to stay for days, and she just said, 'Then I'll bring more than one book'.
@@paulkinzer7661 I completely understand about the wife, my wife is the same, I go by myself a few times a year. Like I said, I suggest a weekend trip, maybe she can get on a commuter train (Metra) to Chicago and go shopping while you go see these trains? On the weekend days there are usually lots of trains running.
@@jamesf791 She's a librarian, and reading books is her go-to choice. Shopping, not so much! I'm going to try to get my son to come, too. He's a 22-year-old engineering student, and we went to several -- much smaller! -- railway museums here in Wisconsin when he was a mite. He recently took a trip to Boston via Amtrak, just because he wanted to travel by train.
@@paulkinzer7661 make it a father-son weekend then.
When he refers to one lathe, it brings back memories of the first lathe I operated. A Shoemaker, Boye and Emmes. Older than theirs, it was designed to run with flat belts off a line shaft. It had been converted to run off an electric motor years ago. A rather large one, 20 inch swing and 10 ft between centers. No quick change gear box, look at the table and mount the correct set of gears on the headstock.
excellent tour
Thanks for sharing this shop/museum tour with us . I like all of your videos but this one a little bit more .
Wow looks like a great place to visit!!
awesome. I am so glad there are guys like you two, and all the others, that keep history available for all to see.These need to be seen to appreciate.
When the kids were young we would take them there a couple times a year. There are great activities for all ages!
Thank you for the great video and tour !
That's a fantastic tour and overview of the restoration shop. It really takes someone as passionate as Phil to maintain all that machinery and still be able to use them to repair century-old hardware. Really impressive. Greetings from Poland to you both, and anyone else involved.
Thanks for the tour of the machine shop they have some very nice machines there i just loved the small sharper Cheers
Love the tour and the guide was great!
Good video. Important machine shop. I think I'd rather hear what the machines were used for lately than where they came from. So after I wrote that you coaxed a good tire and wheel lathe talk from Philip. Thanks for the video
Well, we use them for anything that needs to be made. Not just steam locomotives, but any other equipment at the museum that requires machined parts. The Electric Car Shop has some smaller machines, but big stuff goes to the Steam Shop.
What a treasure trove.
Awesome as Always Such a Cool place Thx for sharing.
That was wonderful:) Wish you'd had a chance to tour the other non-steam shops
Awesome video, I could listen to the two of ya guys talk machine tools and locomotives for way longer. Thank you.
Was up there for Arn Fest 2022 and got to walk through the shop. The size of these machines are bigger in person than they appear on video.
A very AMAZING AWESOME MUSEUM......Thanks Keith & Phil for the tour 👍
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Im starting to become a locomotive guy thanks to you:) Trains have always been the superior transport in my mind, but the lowtech steam is much more interesting than modern stuff. Thanks for making these!
IRM is an amazing place.
Keith we would love to have you stop by the Monticello Railway Museum next time you are in Illinois.
Not as large as IRM but still have many great pieces of equipment and beautiful grounds for that equipment to run on.
I happy thanks great american history.. :)
A lot of awesome kit in there but that wheelset lathe, WOW! Thanks for sharing.
I've been out there a couple of times and they graciously gave tours of the shop and what not very nice facility I often tried to get the Museum of transport in Kirkwood Missouri to get up to this kind of caliber but it just never happened
Great great video
Have always had a love for steam engines. Thanks very much for the tour.
Good morning Keith. Amazing place. Thanks
When I was born my parents lived in down town union. My dad was an engineer. We Moved out of town when I was a toddler. I remember being upset in kindergarten when I found out my dad was a mechanical engineer engineer- not a train engineer 😂
You should get together with Hyce, and tour the Colorado railroad museum, and the East Broad top as well.
i found the exact operators manual for my Leblond lathe on your website. Read it all and i learned a lot. Thanks for saving All that valuable info. I will post a list of my literature and see if you want any of it.
A new bucket list item!
That open side planer is really similar to the one Steve Watkins uses on his channel just with a smaller bed. A lot of interesting machines I wish I had lol.
This is great! Thank you Keith!!
The press came from the Northern Pacific's Brainerd shop. At the top is a metal tag with the information on it.
Thank you for sharing.👍
Glad to see that I am not the only one who put DRO on a vertical slotter. They are other crazy people to 😂😂
This K&T is a TF model meaning “twin features” twin elevating screws. More stable. Able to support longer and more weight.
Amazing thanks for sharing Keith
Great video thanks for sharing
Omg Keith you mean nothing followed you home ?? Your slipping buddy
I was wondering what became of UP 428. I had seen the footage from quite some time ago of the test fire, which is one of the last things done in a restoration, typically. When there was no footage of her running any time after, I assumed something went unexpectedly wrong...
It's not that there is anything wrong with it, just that Frisco 1630 and Shay 5 were considered higher priorities for work, because of the desire to keep at least one locomotive in steam for each season..
great viedeo, Keith. unfortunately I live far away in Germany.
I can't think of a better opportunity to ask this question...but I'm a HUGE fan of GTW Steam and know you have 6323 in one of your barns. Out of curiosity, what's your guess as to the "borrowed" parts FROM 6323, (i.e. side rods, etc.) has the now "former" OCR / Jerry Jacobson obtained from ya'll for restoring 6325 back in the day. Per the above, one can't help but notice that on the engineers side, she appears to be short of a driving rod and other extraneous mechanics that propelled her, (again, back in the day). Just idle conversations ya'll . I'm open for your thoughts...THX !
What ever happened to the stoker engine you and abom were working on?
Very interested to see the axle mounted wheel lathe, there is one at 'Steamtown' Carnforth, Lancashire, England. It is mounted over a pit so the tooling is at a convenient working height.
I don't think the steam sheds are open to the public any more, rampant elf and safety rules which were forced upon us by the eurocrats
Keith, back in the before times, I mean, the before your recent surgery and subsequent weight loss, I used to watch your videos at 2x speed. Lately, though, I've noticed 2x is almost too fast. Has your improved conditions reduced the oscillating mass of your jaw? It seems like you're speaking much faster these days. Do you have more energy with your new dietary processes? Or, perhaps recently, you've increased the play rate post production? Anyway, just something curious I've noticed. You're looking more fit than ever. Keep up the good work!
Do they have a bridge crane in there. I saw a lot of chains hanging down but never saw if there was a crane up there. Maybe I’ll have to check it out again, I couldn’t imagine doing heavy work like they are without one.
Look again
Saw one
Plus 3 other gantry
What happened to Tally-Oh's windless / Capstone?
Maybe I missed, did he mention how many people works with these many machines?
Three or four, depending on level of qualifications.
Would have been nice to learn what brand and size of each piece of equipment.
No matter where you go nowadays you see the ubiquitous amazon boxes.
Hiring any blacksmiths? 😊
Does anyone know how many people work at this shop and are they full time jobs? They talked about rebuilding different cars and how it took a few guys multiple years to complete the caboose, I wonder if those are 40 hour weeks or is it sometimes volunteer work.
Check their website
We're an all-volunteer organization. Generally the steam shop works on Saturday, though sometimes people come in on Sunday. Other shops work at other times, some during the week. Mostly just whenever somebody has the time to come by.
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Keith, this is not a complaint about you but this is by far one of the saddest machining videos I’ve ever seen. A WHOLE machineshop with ALL needed equipment, full of experienced machinists and they can’t build a master cylinder from scratch? 21:43 What a waste of talent and pile of bureaucracy that causes this waste.
One thing I didn't see is a casting/forge area. I'd assume that's what they need, not the machining of it.
@@KeefyKat, I have no idea of the size of something like that but could Windy Hill handle something like that? Just curious.
Brake cylinders of this era were all castings. Did you see any foundry on this tour? Any cupola furnaces, any ladles, any flasks? We were going to grind out the crack and braze it, but decide that wouldn't be the right way to do it, because we are, after all, a passenger-carrying railroad and safety is the top priority. It's rather funny that you call this 'one of the saddest machining videos you've ever seen' because of a single item that has absolutely nothing to do with machining. Yes, it would be easily within our capability to machine a new one, but that would be quite a bit of effort that could be better put into something that we can't simply buy.
@@Hoaxer51 I doubt it, the cylinder body itself is about thirty pounds.