Near nothing to report at HVRM 10-6-12

Fellow Travellers -   Arrived at the museum a bit after 9:00 a.m.  Today was our first three Halloween trains of the season and I volunteered to carhost for the day so won't have much else to report as I didn't get around to see much of what was going on.  Cold overnight.  Temp mid-morning was 39 degrees and at the end of the afternoon it stood at 51 degrees.  Probably mid-50's for a high.   These cool temps probably kept riders down a bit.  Still, Loretta Kosloske reported 387 riders total.  The first trip of the day had a nearly full LIRR coach 2937 with people in the B&LE, EL, NKP and EJ&E cabooses and, with some sunshine at that time of the day, even some folks in the Katy open car.    Joe Baker was painting the inside walls of Grasselli this morning with Steve Henrichs continuing his hard at work on scraping and priming under the second floor eaves.  I noticed a hole from the ground and Steve says it is just below where the chimney was.  Some new wood will be needed.  Steve reports that this is the only bad section he has found.  Everything else seems solid.  Steve Newland also worked on the tower later in the day.   With so many members tied up with the pumpkin train operations today, there wasn't a lot of other stuff going on.  Cory Bennett and Dave Cook were working on the fence line out near the old milk station location.   I told Joe Kingsbury that I had seen the two ends put back on the museums motor car when I was at the museum mid-week.  Joe says that the roof on the car is in pretty bad shape, with a lot of rust and deterioration.  He has welded some new pieces in, but much remains to be done.   I'll try to list those involved in the train operation and support work for the trains today.  They include Bill Dauber, Bob Barcus, Joe and Louise Kingsbury (and 11 year old granddaughter), Mark Knebel, Judy Boyer, Bob Albert, Randall Downs, John and Pat DeGan, Bob Jachim and yours truly.  Fred Boyer and John LaOrange were in the cab of EL S-1 # 310 with Doug Kosloske as Conductor.  I probably missed someone.  If so, I apologize.   Have a good week everyone!   Les