| Greetings friends! Unlike those of you on the east coast that are getting dumped on this weekend, we had sunshine all day today with temps in the mid to high 30's. The bit of snow still on the ground is slowly disappearing! We know that winter is not yet over, and could still bite us in the rear end. But we will be thankful for our continued good fortune and hope those of you in other parts of the country, are holding up as best you can. Hoosier Valley Board meeting this morning at 8:00 and I was only a few minutes late. Bob Barcus showed off his drawing for the museums 25th Anniversary celebration. Really well done. Fred Boyer came in and announced that he had put up the second set of 6" numbers for the 2789 in the number lamp box up at the top of the Kanawha's smokebox. We've had one of the lamp boxes with a set of 2789 numbers for a long time but the font was incorrect. Jeff Kehler of the C&O Historical Society was able to get us the correct font blueprints and Fred got the boards made. He would have had both done last Saturday, but one glass plate was about an inch too long and wouldn't quite fit. The new (correct) numbers look great. Fred intends to do the numbers for the headlight too with the correct font for them, but is holding out now for new studs so that he can put the classification lights up on the 2-8-4. It was great to see Tom Travis at the museum today. It's been a very long time since Tom has been in North Judson, mainly caused by hip problems. Tom got a new hip about 4 months ago and it seems to be coming along nicely. He brought down the new air brake pipe that Ross Robinson had made some time back and Tom and I marked it and put it on the storage shelves in the shop. Hopefully it won't end up in the scrap bin! The pipe is for GTW transfer caboose # 75072, that is currently being used as our "curio sales" shop. Once the weather turns warmer, we'll try to get the pipe installed under the 75072. The boys thought that they had the diesel generator under Long Island commuter coach # 2937 repaired, but had another problem pop up this morning. Cory Bennett, Rich Warner, Dave Cook and Steve Henrichs worked on it and finally got it running smoothly. Joe Kingsbury continues to work on the interior heating pipe problems. Bjarne Henderson and John DeGan worked on the air vents along the top of the Pullman Troop Sleeper. Some of these have apparently been leaking, causing some of the water seepage problems on the interior walls of the car. Meanwhile, Bob Albert and Fred continued their work of the restoration of the interior on the yellow display caboose and I joined in and helped them. I managed to finally get the large display cabinet pulled away from the one wall of the car. Not sure if this cabinet will be used in the new display configuration, but at least it can now be removed if that is the final decision. John LaOrange was making repairs on the door of the operating crew sign-in room in the shop. Mike Koehler showed up with a truck to remove some private locomotive parts from the shop building. Bing Risley loaded some of these items with his fork lift. Steve Newland continued with building the shelves for the new addition to the G Gauge layout in the waiting area of the museums depot. Number of other folks working on various things at the museum today including Judy Boyer, Margrett Cook, Randall Downs, Mark Knebel, Tom McKee, Doug Kosloske and Bob Jachim. Probably missed some folks. Have a great week everyone. Remember, February is a short month and once March gets here, so will Spring! Les | 
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