A short, hot day made shorter at HVRM 7-7-12

Hello!   Our extremely hot summer continues, with the thermometer at the museum reading 103 degrees in the afternoon.  Because of the high temps this past week, Mark Knebel had sent out an e-mail announcing that the 2:45 train to La Crosse would not run.   Tim Wills was the agent today and advised that, surprisingly, 18 hardy souls showed up to ride the 11:00 train out to English Lake, despite the heat.  At least some of them rode in the air conditioned Long Island coach # 2937.   I brought a primed window frame for coach 899 with the idea of painting it and putting a piece of plexiglass in it as a temporary replacement for a window to be rebuilt by Norwayne Lumber.  Despite the hot temp, the paint remained sticky, probably due to the high humidity.  At 2:00, with Norwayne closed for the day, I threw in the towel and put the now painted window frame aside for another day.   Fred Boyer finally received the printed plaques to put in 2937 from Task Force Tips, a company in Valparaiso, Indiana honoring Clyde McMillian, the companies founder.  TFT donated most of the purchase price of the 2937.  Fred put plaques in the coach as it sat between runs, one at each end of the car.  Unfortunately, the extreme temps today later caused the motor on the 2937 to overheat and automatically shut down.  With no air conditioning, and only two passengers holding tickets for the 1:30 train, the train was annulled.   Joe Baker and Steve Henrichs were working on Grasselli Tower again today.  Steve Newland was not at the museum but reported to Bob Barcus that sashes for additional windows for the tower have been received.   Matt Lasayko worked on the wig-wag signal and was able to get it operating again.   The boy scouts continued their painting of EL caboose # C345 in the West Annex of the shop.   The train crew switched the 2937 out of the consist when the cars were being put away for the day and placed it over next to the Shop to be looked at this coming week.   Some cooler air was moving in as we wrapped up the museum's day.  Have a good week folks!   Les