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Author:  rwullich [ Thu May 07, 2015 10:51 am ]
Post subject:  Dailey Foundation Latest Grant Awards
Congratulations to all the recipients.
Roy

GRANT AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Board of Directors of the Tom E. Dailey Foundation of Chicago is pleased to announce the following railroad related grants that were approved at the May 2, 2015 quarterly board meeting. Since its creation in 2013, the Foundation has awarded grants totaling $380,300. The Foundation’s website is http://www.daileyfoundation.org.

15-046 Chicago & North Western Historical Society, North Riverside, IL $1,500
The C&WHS started in 1977 to gather, preserve, and document items relating to the Chicago & North Western Railroad. Their collection includes some 700 glass negative images from the C. G. Stecher and the Alan MacMillian collections which they wish to digitize to allow the images to be made available to the general public as well as historical researchers. Information from the Society’s archives is actively sought out by historians, authors, and the public for historical information about the C&NW and its predecessor roads. With funding from this grant, they hope to complete the project by year-end.

15-047 Chinese Historical Society of America Museum, San Francisco, CA $3,000
This 52-year-old group requested funding to develop “Voices from the Railroad,” an oral history from descendants of Chinese workers who built the first transcontinental railroad. The CHSAM is the oldest organization in the country dedicated to the interpretation, promotion, and preservation of the social, cultural, and political history of the Chinese in America. The “Voices from the Railroad” project will gather and post on their website oral histories of 8 descendants of Chinese workers who worked on the first transcontinental railroad. These oral histories will complement the Society’s existing “Work of Giants” exhibit telling the story of the completion of the railroad.

15-049 Engine 557 Restoration Company, Wasilla, AK $2,000
This organization was created to fund and manage the expected $1.2 million project to restore Engine 557—the Alaska Railroad’s last steam locomotive. Built during WWII for the U.S. Army Transportation Corps, No. 557 operated in Anchorage. It was kept on in the 50s because steam locomotives can run on submerged tracks where diesel locomotives can’t. To-date, they have raised $705,000 in part through a $350,000 matching grant from the Rasmuson Foundation. They estimate they have contributed an additional one-half million dollars through the 15,000+ volunteer hours to-date. The grant will assist with firebox replacement and boiler repairs (the engine has 250,000 miles of usage). Once the project is completed, the engine will be used both for main line operation and stored at their site for interpretative viewing. School children and the interested public will be able to watch volunteers perform routine maintenance and view information on the Railroad’s century-long impact and importance to Alaska.

15-027 NRHS Alexander Chapter, Hickory NC $4,000
Funding to move three dilapidated cars from Colorado to North Carolina where they can be used for parts in their restoration efforts with other equipment. Their program specifically focuses on narrow gauge railroad cars, and the parts from these skeleton cars can be used to finish work on three of the most historic narrow cars in their collection: an East TN & Western NC RR boxcar #434, a West Virginia Midland Baggage Car #1, and a Westside Lumber log car. The full project cost is $14,000. They have raised $10,000 to-date.

15-028 Caledonia Historical Society, Inc., Caledonia, WI $3,000
This group operates the Linwood Park Heritage Village in southeastern Wisconsin. It consists of the 1887 town hall, a 1902 Milwaukee Road depot, a 1927 caboose, an 1840 log cabin, and the museum. Earlier the group did extensive renovation on the depot. Before the work is final, one last section needs to be scraped, primed and painted in the original yellow. Also, the paint on their 1927 caboose, which was restored and repainted in 2011, has since faded, and the caboose needs to be primed and repainted. With all available volunteers currently tasked on restoring the rail shed/barn recently moved to Linwood Park, the group asked for funding for professional painters to complete the painting work.

15-029 Lake Shore Railway Historical Society, Inc., North East, PA $3,000
The purpose of this 59-year-old group is to preserve classic examples of General Electric locomotive technology. To that end, they have already restored six GE locomotives, all of which are accessible to the public at their museum in North East, PA, just 10 miles from the Erie, PA, GE assembly plant that built them. Their current project is to acquire, move, and restore a 1944 General Electric 80-ton center cab locomotive #20. While GE produced several thousand “industrial locomotives” like #20, this particular locomotive was the first diesel electric locomotive owned and operated by the Genesee & Wyoming Railroad of Retsof, New York. G&WRR operated #20 on a short line that serviced crews working the salt mines in Rochester, New York. The budget for the total restoration project is $37,000. The LSRHS museum was recently cited in Trains Magazine .

15-032 Brooks Preservation Society, Brooks, ME $2,500
Brooks Preservation Society operates the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad. This 30-mile short line connecting Belfast, Maine, with Burnham Junction was chartered in 1867 by Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlin. The project is the restoration/rehabilitation of historic Brooks Station built in 1892. Following extensive roof, foundation, and exterior repairs, they are now turning to the interior—specifically the agent’s office. The money is to refinish the birch hardwood floors, rebuild the cabinetry as it was and provide a professional cleaning of the interior (the original wainscoting and trim) and walls without disturbing historically significant “wear” such as signatures and dates of some early agents. Their long range plan is to return passenger excursion service to Brooks Station. The depot is on the National Register of Historic Places.

15-033 Bradford Ohio Railroad Museum, Bradford, OH $2,000
This three-time grant recipient is developing interpretative exhibits for the main level of the museum including the Abraham Lincoln Funeral Train and an Interactive CPU for railroad education. These exhibits will preserve the museum’s collection in interactive and educational exhibit environments and will cover 130 years of railroad history at the junction. This 12-year-old group is an affiliate of NRHS.


15-034 Roanoke Chapter, NRHS, Roanoke, VA $2,000

Among several pieces of passenger car equipment owned by this 47-year-old group is #1148, a former Great Northern lunch counter/crew dormitory car built in 1949 by Pullman-Standard. The chapter purchased the car in 1972 and used it for many years in excursion operations. For the past 15 years, the car has been stored out of service and has suffered damage due to failing window gaskets. Three years ago the decision was made to restore the car in support of upcoming steam excursion operations planned by their partner organization, the Virginia Museum of Transportation. Upon examination, it was determined that repairs to the side sills and crash posts of the car are necessary for safe main line operation. The repairs will consist of replacing the existing side sills and repairing the damaged areas of the crash posts. In addition, new sheet metal will be installed at the lower edge along both sides of the car and around the crash posts once the structural repairs are complete. Quotes for this “Phase-1” work vary from $20,000 to $30,000. Total project costs are estimated at $60,000 to $70,000.
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