| Hello! Well, winter finally decided to drop in on northwest Indiana. Beginning late Friday night and continuing into Saturday morning, about 4 inches of snow was dumped on the area which included North Judson. This made for snow packed roads and I arrived about 25 minutes late for the Board meeting. A number of things were discussed including a presentation, with subsequent approval, of next seasons train schedule. John LaOrange successfully fired up Whitcomb # 27. Then John with Doug Kosloske and John DeGan, pulled out B&LE caboose # 1989 from the caboose storage track and went out to the east end. They brought Santa Claus in to North Judson at 12:30 p.m. and he detrained and then rode in a horse drawn carriage over to town for its parade. Fred Boyer and Joe Baker spent their morning duct taping the balance of the windows on LIRR # 2937 so that when the car is spray painted, no paint will seep into the cars interior. Loretta Kosloske, Judy Boyer and Pat DeGan manned the gift shop all day. It was decided to move equipment around and the train crew did the switching, pulling out LIRR 2937 and moving CSS flat car # 18010 back into the West Annex of the Shop, respotting the Long Island coach on track 2 in the old Shop building in front of the flat car and setting GE # 11 in front of the coach in the east shop annex. Cory used the Payloader to move the old timber decking that had been removed from the CSS flat car last week, to a spot back out behind the Shop. Eventually this wood will be used as new decking on NKP flat car # 2733. Lunch consisted of tuna salad and crackers, chicken soup, hamburgers and deserts. I spent time working on the arch window on coach 899. In the afternoon, Joe Kingsbury started in on cleaning the loose rust off of CSS 18010. Steve Newland started notching the stringers for the lower steps of Grasselli Tower. Have a good week everyone. Enjoy winter! Les | 
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