Greetings to all. Hot day at HVRM yesterday, well into the upper 80's and then some.
Nice blue sky, something we have not seen in a while, cept for liquid sunshine.
MDT 13385 scrubbing is done, well on one side, save the north side for cooler days.
Les and myself worked again yesterday all day to finish it. Wore out countless
SOS scrubbing pads, 2 wire brushes, arms, hands, shoulders. Everyone is very sore
this morning. Sun was more intense than the cool temp on friday. Detailing of rivets
and hinges are things to do yet, we just did not have the time to finish it. One more
volunteer would of made the difference in getting it completely scrubbed.
Tie gang at La Crosse continued, 90 ties now installed, spiked and tamped. Crew worked
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday this past week. HOT and HARD work. Over the 3 days,
Cory, John, Mark, Joe, Matt, Dave all worked on track. Great job guys.
Good crowds for the tourist trains today. I kept seeing people coming an going all
day.
The dinner train was a great sucess. Loretta an her crew did an excellent job in
the serving car dishing out a great BBQ sandwiches, coleslaw and potato salad.
She said that 69 people rode and paid, maybe even more could of been on the train,
but space necessiatated it being cut off. Originally I heard 90 was the reservations,
but not enough seating was available. Many thanks to Mid America and the use of the
air conditioned cars.
Next weekend will conclude the NKP 765 steam operations, saturday will be the last
day to ride behind the Berkshire. I saw a pile of rust outside the west shop and
believe that Richard Warner had the water canteen cleaned out of rust. Many thanks
to Richard an his elevator and John Deere tractor to load coal into the 765 tender.
It has been a rough session, but the joy of seeing steam run has been another wonder
of the NKP 765 group.
Upcoming events in the area for July, 14-17 Little River Railroad will be hosting 5 steam
locomotives over a 4 day event. Google LRRR get all the info.
Train festival in Rock Island IL July 21-24 is going to be another large event of steam
engines, should be a good show.
A couple of projects in the shop buildings, C&NW boxcar is being prepped for paint along
with patching holes in the body. Steve Newland continues on getting the stairs to the
upper level of Grasseli done. If you like to paint wood, Steve will get you fixed
up to paint. Matt continues to work on track, putting insulators between rails for
the signal system. A new security program for the depot was installed week ago friday.
Doors will be rekeyed and instructions given to key holders on how to alarm and disalarm
the system later on.
Word had it that Wendt of Mishawaka might be donating a DT&I caboose to the museum.
The board of directors have not discussed it yet, but certainly another cupola caboose would
be welcome to the museum, especially a Wabash heritage built car with stream lined
cupola. Lets keep hoping it will happen. The car has been inside a wire fenced in lot,
for years, no vandalism, nor major issues, cept for faded paint. It must be complete
inside, as it was never turned into an office of sorts for the Wendt company. I will let
everyone know the outcome, but Joe Kingsbury already knows we want it. Lets not have
this slip threw our hands
Thats about it for now, come on out next weekend for steam action at HVRM.
Tom
Nice blue sky, something we have not seen in a while, cept for liquid sunshine.
MDT 13385 scrubbing is done, well on one side, save the north side for cooler days.
Les and myself worked again yesterday all day to finish it. Wore out countless
SOS scrubbing pads, 2 wire brushes, arms, hands, shoulders. Everyone is very sore
this morning. Sun was more intense than the cool temp on friday. Detailing of rivets
and hinges are things to do yet, we just did not have the time to finish it. One more
volunteer would of made the difference in getting it completely scrubbed.
Tie gang at La Crosse continued, 90 ties now installed, spiked and tamped. Crew worked
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday this past week. HOT and HARD work. Over the 3 days,
Cory, John, Mark, Joe, Matt, Dave all worked on track. Great job guys.
Good crowds for the tourist trains today. I kept seeing people coming an going all
day.
The dinner train was a great sucess. Loretta an her crew did an excellent job in
the serving car dishing out a great BBQ sandwiches, coleslaw and potato salad.
She said that 69 people rode and paid, maybe even more could of been on the train,
but space necessiatated it being cut off. Originally I heard 90 was the reservations,
but not enough seating was available. Many thanks to Mid America and the use of the
air conditioned cars.
Next weekend will conclude the NKP 765 steam operations, saturday will be the last
day to ride behind the Berkshire. I saw a pile of rust outside the west shop and
believe that Richard Warner had the water canteen cleaned out of rust. Many thanks
to Richard an his elevator and John Deere tractor to load coal into the 765 tender.
It has been a rough session, but the joy of seeing steam run has been another wonder
of the NKP 765 group.
Upcoming events in the area for July, 14-17 Little River Railroad will be hosting 5 steam
locomotives over a 4 day event. Google LRRR get all the info.
Train festival in Rock Island IL July 21-24 is going to be another large event of steam
engines, should be a good show.
A couple of projects in the shop buildings, C&NW boxcar is being prepped for paint along
with patching holes in the body. Steve Newland continues on getting the stairs to the
upper level of Grasseli done. If you like to paint wood, Steve will get you fixed
up to paint. Matt continues to work on track, putting insulators between rails for
the signal system. A new security program for the depot was installed week ago friday.
Doors will be rekeyed and instructions given to key holders on how to alarm and disalarm
the system later on.
Word had it that Wendt of Mishawaka might be donating a DT&I caboose to the museum.
The board of directors have not discussed it yet, but certainly another cupola caboose would
be welcome to the museum, especially a Wabash heritage built car with stream lined
cupola. Lets keep hoping it will happen. The car has been inside a wire fenced in lot,
for years, no vandalism, nor major issues, cept for faded paint. It must be complete
inside, as it was never turned into an office of sorts for the Wendt company. I will let
everyone know the outcome, but Joe Kingsbury already knows we want it. Lets not have
this slip threw our hands
Thats about it for now, come on out next weekend for steam action at HVRM.
Tom
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