Greetings to all, hope all had a safe 4th of July and enjoyed lots of fireworks.
Not bad this year considering the temps last year were over 100 degrees.
Lots of activities this week, Monday 7/1, saw Les working on his passenger car
painting on the west end. Getting closer all the time to completion. Tom working
outside of the west shop area on the REA trailer, painting the upper half with
green paint. Completed all with Les helping later in the afternoon paint some
detail angle work that a roller does not work very well on. A couple of rain showers
interrupted work and that was it for the day. Tuesday or Wednesday C&I brought in
another trainload of grain cars for storage, filling up all the tracks. Thursday had
a track crew working on Erie track down by IN10 road crossing, including Friday,
over 50 ties were put in, not spiked or tamped yet, later. Cory, Mark, John, Joe was
the crew and I held down the small cart with the tools on Friday. Work ceased at 5pm
a full day for everyone. Friday I finished the lower half painting on the REA trailer.
Looks good, but might need another coat to hide all the rough spots. Easy to roll,
will use a long pole to do the sides in one swipe.
Saturday was dedication of repainting outside, and fixing wood panels and repainting
on the inside of the troop car. At approx 3pm, the car was rolled outside for pictures
of the participants in restoring the troop car. Lars and Bjarne Henderson both had
big smiles on their faces as the families inspected the car. Nice job guys and
Thanks again for all your hard work.
First tourist train of the day had a good size crowd on board. Second an third trains
of the day were so so on passengers. Cory and Dave worked on draining the oil
from the hydralyic system from the back hoe tractor. Water has turned the oil to
a milky color and slowed down the operation of the system. By next weekend the
tractor should be back in operation. John was engineer, Doug conductor on todays
trains. Bob picked up a load of scrap rubber and wire, filling his truck to overflowing.
Bob and Loretta ran the depot ops today, Margret and Diane handled the lunch
for the hungry workers. Steve Newland, Steve Hendrichs worked in the tower today
woodworking and cleaning parts for the radiator system. Jason Jordan participated
in activities today also.
Thats about it for today, next saturday is hobo day, come out an enjoy the displays
and hobos.
Have a safe week, enjoy the nice weather
Tom
Not bad this year considering the temps last year were over 100 degrees.
Lots of activities this week, Monday 7/1, saw Les working on his passenger car
painting on the west end. Getting closer all the time to completion. Tom working
outside of the west shop area on the REA trailer, painting the upper half with
green paint. Completed all with Les helping later in the afternoon paint some
detail angle work that a roller does not work very well on. A couple of rain showers
interrupted work and that was it for the day. Tuesday or Wednesday C&I brought in
another trainload of grain cars for storage, filling up all the tracks. Thursday had
a track crew working on Erie track down by IN10 road crossing, including Friday,
over 50 ties were put in, not spiked or tamped yet, later. Cory, Mark, John, Joe was
the crew and I held down the small cart with the tools on Friday. Work ceased at 5pm
a full day for everyone. Friday I finished the lower half painting on the REA trailer.
Looks good, but might need another coat to hide all the rough spots. Easy to roll,
will use a long pole to do the sides in one swipe.
Saturday was dedication of repainting outside, and fixing wood panels and repainting
on the inside of the troop car. At approx 3pm, the car was rolled outside for pictures
of the participants in restoring the troop car. Lars and Bjarne Henderson both had
big smiles on their faces as the families inspected the car. Nice job guys and
Thanks again for all your hard work.
First tourist train of the day had a good size crowd on board. Second an third trains
of the day were so so on passengers. Cory and Dave worked on draining the oil
from the hydralyic system from the back hoe tractor. Water has turned the oil to
a milky color and slowed down the operation of the system. By next weekend the
tractor should be back in operation. John was engineer, Doug conductor on todays
trains. Bob picked up a load of scrap rubber and wire, filling his truck to overflowing.
Bob and Loretta ran the depot ops today, Margret and Diane handled the lunch
for the hungry workers. Steve Newland, Steve Hendrichs worked in the tower today
woodworking and cleaning parts for the radiator system. Jason Jordan participated
in activities today also.
Thats about it for today, next saturday is hobo day, come out an enjoy the displays
and hobos.
Have a safe week, enjoy the nice weather
Tom
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