Greetings to All,
Busy Monday 6/13 and Wednesday 6/15 working on MDT Reefers. Work session by myself and Les
Monday. Started out with the MDT cars at the east end of the storage track. I got the
scaffolding set up on MDT 14070 south side to grind and prime door. Had the generator
in the back of the van for electricity. Les had to get a block of wood to stand on to get
the very top of the door. Scaffold was not high enough, and it was down in a ditch.
Jason Annen showed up and was going to wash Mid America cars. Talked him
into moving the 14070 over 1 track and the 13858 down by the east shop access to
water for TSP'ing on Wednesday.
Got both cars moved and I got most of the door primed till I ran out of paint. Still need
to do the levers to open/close doors. But really the primer makes the car look good.
Les had painted the north side earlier with yellow, but needs another coat sometime,
but for now is okay.
Today started out very rainy with lots of lightning and thunder till 9:30am. After it stopped
I got the key to the manlift and moved it down next to the south side of the car.
Got the hose out, water turned on, and TSP cooking in the buckets and the scrubbing
began. ARMs are very tired along with sore hands and fingers. Made a serious dent
in scrubbing off the grime before quitting at 4PM.
In the mean time, a semi load of new ties came in to be unloaded about 3pm.
100 new ties were delievered from Galesburg IL. No La Crosse tie work this weekend as
big steam weekend with NKP 765.
EMD Model 40 got TAGGED out by IN 10 in the last couple of days, will go out an
spray some black paint on the yellow spray paint on the engine. Won't see it at all from
the highway.
Friday is NKP 765 Throttle day from 7am to 7pm. Saturday/Sunday are 765 excursions
and another throttle day will be around the beginning of July with one more excursion
day July 3rd.
Little River Railroad in Coldwater Michigan, July 14-17 will be having 5 steam locomotives
steamed up for steam weekend. LRRR 110, LRRR 1, Flagg 75, Viscose 6 and Lehigh Valley 126,
LRRR newest steam engine.
July 21-24 will be the Rockford Train Festival, many big steam engines will be there.
Lots of action at HVRM this weekend, Come on out and join us.
Tom
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