| Greetings! Had a short day at HVRM due to a family committment. Arrived at 9 and left at 1:00. Checked the temp and found it was 95 degrees at about 11:00. Spent my time working on passenger coach # 899. The operating crew was switching Long Island coach # 2937 into the train consist and the air conditioning unit on 2937 was obviously working. I was surprised to see that the crew was using GE # 11 instead of the Alco. I asked John DeGan about it and he advised that EL Alco # 310 had broken down the week before after arriving back in North Judson after a run. I found Todd Flanigan, Doug Kosloske and Joe Baker had been working on the problem, which turned out to be a minor electrical relay. It was fixed and the Alco will be available for next weeks train. John DeGan was engineer/fireman for the days runs, sharing the cab with John LaOrange. Conductor for the day was Bob Albert. Randall Downs was one of the car hosts. Steve Newland has 4 of the 5 south facing windows in the second floor of Grasselli Tower now installed in place and is "tweaking" their operation. Steve Henrichs was priming the west side of the tower after he had recently completed the scraping, priming and painting the wood gutters and undersoffits on the east and south side of the tower. The dark green paint really looks good! Also on Grasselli, Joe Kingsbury built and placed a sign in front of the tower and facing Mulberry Street. The sign honors the major benefactors to the donation and move of the tower from East Chicago to North Judson. A beautiful piece of work by Joe (as usual)! In the west annex of the Shop, I found EL bay window caboose # C345 sitting completed and looking sharp! The Eagle Scout, with some assistance from his friends and family, did a terrific job. The caboose will be used with Alco 310 for the Erie Lackawanna Historical Society group that is visiting HVRM at the end of September during their Annual Convention. Bob Barcus was busy labelling new items recently received for sale in the museums gift shop while Loretta Kosloske was selling passenger train tickets. The "dog days" of summer are still with us, with slightly cooler temps and light rain in the forecast for Sunday but a return into the 90's forecast this coming week. Stay cool folks! Les | 
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