Hello to all,
The day after beginning of summer, sure kicked off in a hot fashion. Sweltering
temps an humidity to boot. Full moon is today with it being closest to earth for
the year. Take a look tonite if able to see it.
I was pressed into riding the EL310 for the 3 runs of the day. A nice chage of pace
from working on some project. Fred Boyer was engineer for the day, Bob Barcus was
conductor on the first 2 runs, with Doug being on the 3rd. A couple of others were
trainees an I forgot their names. During the 2nd and 3rd run was guest engineer
throttle time project. Randall Downs was the docent for all three trips on the open
air car. For the tourist count on Fathers day weekend totaled about 200 both days,
today was close to 80 or so.
The EMD Model 40 had the train ride signs taken off during the week an later
in the day the manlift was moved from the shop to alongside the critter for painting
this coming next week.
Joe Baker continues working in Grasselli tower on the cast iron radiators, grinding
and painting them for replacement along the wall.
Bjarne and son Lars Henderson continue working on the troop sleeper car in
the west shop area. Painting the underside was accomplished and now believe
the car is ready to be moved out back on the display track soon. A possible roll-out
will be conducted with a dedication ceremony with the boy scouts who helped
work on the car soon.
Cory Bennett has been attempting to replace/fix the bad tire on the back-hoe tractor.
Not much success as a couple of problems have arose with rims, hole size, and
many trips to La Crosse to attempt to get it fixed. The tire is foam filled and has been
coming apart litterally, needing to be replaced. Diane Bennett provide the lunch in
the kitchen car today, thanks much appreciate it.
The passing track has been cleared of boxcars, Metra cars for run around of the loco
on the La Crosse trips. A better turnaround time has been accomplished for the 2:45
pm run. On the last run of the day Doug had a trainee doing a lot of the manual labor
to qualify. Due to a shortage of engine crews resulted in a longer time to put all
the locomotives away in the building. C&O 2789 had to be pushed inside with
the Erie 310 and the #11 was pushed into the building. By 6pm all was done.
A long hot day. I was given a break from Erie 310 an rode the Bessemer caboose
back from La Crosse enjoying the view from the cupola. Has been a while since I
rode the train all day.
Les Beckman came out on Thursday to work on the passenger car ends. He got
the grinding done on the west end an primed.
Remember next week will be the picnic train to La Crosse at 2:45pm, so return time
might be later than normal. Come on out an enjoy the train ride.
Everyone have a good week, drive safe, lots of wild weather out there.
Tom Travis
The day after beginning of summer, sure kicked off in a hot fashion. Sweltering
temps an humidity to boot. Full moon is today with it being closest to earth for
the year. Take a look tonite if able to see it.
I was pressed into riding the EL310 for the 3 runs of the day. A nice chage of pace
from working on some project. Fred Boyer was engineer for the day, Bob Barcus was
conductor on the first 2 runs, with Doug being on the 3rd. A couple of others were
trainees an I forgot their names. During the 2nd and 3rd run was guest engineer
throttle time project. Randall Downs was the docent for all three trips on the open
air car. For the tourist count on Fathers day weekend totaled about 200 both days,
today was close to 80 or so.
The EMD Model 40 had the train ride signs taken off during the week an later
in the day the manlift was moved from the shop to alongside the critter for painting
this coming next week.
Joe Baker continues working in Grasselli tower on the cast iron radiators, grinding
and painting them for replacement along the wall.
Bjarne and son Lars Henderson continue working on the troop sleeper car in
the west shop area. Painting the underside was accomplished and now believe
the car is ready to be moved out back on the display track soon. A possible roll-out
will be conducted with a dedication ceremony with the boy scouts who helped
work on the car soon.
Cory Bennett has been attempting to replace/fix the bad tire on the back-hoe tractor.
Not much success as a couple of problems have arose with rims, hole size, and
many trips to La Crosse to attempt to get it fixed. The tire is foam filled and has been
coming apart litterally, needing to be replaced. Diane Bennett provide the lunch in
the kitchen car today, thanks much appreciate it.
The passing track has been cleared of boxcars, Metra cars for run around of the loco
on the La Crosse trips. A better turnaround time has been accomplished for the 2:45
pm run. On the last run of the day Doug had a trainee doing a lot of the manual labor
to qualify. Due to a shortage of engine crews resulted in a longer time to put all
the locomotives away in the building. C&O 2789 had to be pushed inside with
the Erie 310 and the #11 was pushed into the building. By 6pm all was done.
A long hot day. I was given a break from Erie 310 an rode the Bessemer caboose
back from La Crosse enjoying the view from the cupola. Has been a while since I
rode the train all day.
Les Beckman came out on Thursday to work on the passenger car ends. He got
the grinding done on the west end an primed.
Remember next week will be the picnic train to La Crosse at 2:45pm, so return time
might be later than normal. Come on out an enjoy the train ride.
Everyone have a good week, drive safe, lots of wild weather out there.
Tom Travis
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