Keepin` it warm at HVRM 7-27-13

 

Greetings!

 

Cool day for July!  Set a new record low temperature high for July 27th today; only hit 65 degrees.  Sun and clouds and a cool wind all day, with just a few drops of rain.  We really need some good rains as things are very dry.

 

Arrived at 9:00 a.m. and operating crew already hard at work.  John DeGan engineer with Bob Barcus as Conductor.  Dug out a couple of weeds in the flower bed around one of our electric poles.  Ran into Steve Henrichs who was looking for the key to the Man Lift which we located in the key box in the Shop.  Then over to the Erie shed for some Freight Car Red (Tuscan) paint.  Spent the rest of my day painting the TTX flatcar, which I managed to get finished and even had a bit of paint left over.  Didn't get around the museum much today, but here is what I know happened:

 

Steve Henrichs put a clamp on the pipe extending out from the expansion tank at the top of Grasselli Tower (which is why he needed the Man Lift).  Steve continued with the painting of the steam heat radiators for the second floor of the Tower.  Steve Newland put in two new window sills on the windows on the west side of the Towers second floor.

 

A crew worked on tamping around a number of new ties put in earlier this week on the old Erie track east of Main Street.  John LaOrange, Cory Bennett, Dave Cook, Bing Risley and Mark Knebel were involved in this work, and perhaps some others that I missed.

 

Mike Koehler was working on his ex-Long Island RS-1 #467.

 

The yellow (ex-IC) display caboose continues to be worked on.  Bob Albert, Fred Boyer and Doug Kosloske were the work crew.

 

Two trains to English Lake seemed to be well patronized.  Final train of the day was a picnic train special to La Crosse.

 

Good to see the Emmons (Bruce and Annabelle) at the museum this afternoon.  Bruce was one of the founding members of the group that founded the museum to acquire the 2789 back in 1986.  Talked to Dan Siple earlier this week and Dan is doing well after his recent heart surgery.

 

Headed for home at 3:30 p.m.   Hope everyone has a great week.

 

 

Les